Desert Garb of Inner Purity

Neville's Inner Vision

John’s camel hair robe and his girdle are not garments but inner signs of a soul prepared to repent and to act with relentless honesty. In the theater of your mind, they symbolize a stripping away of adornment: you are called to cast off the fashionable masks and to stand in the clear light of awareness. The belt is discipline—an unyielding alignment of desire with truth, a boundary that prevents the ego from wandering into noise. The locusts and honey represent the raw nourishment of truth: feed on what is essential, not what pleases, letting your thoughts digest the stark reality of your present moment. This John is a state of consciousness you can inhabit now: repentance as turning your attention inward toward the I AM, humility as the courageous acceptance that you are not governed by public opinion, purity as integrity of motive. When you embody this inner austerity, you become a living sign that reality follows your awareness. Practice: assume this inner garb, and let your sense faculties take in truth without embellishment, until your world rearranges to match the inner state.