Lachish and the I AM Within

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville’s way, Lachish is not a distant city but a posture of mind—an agreement with haste and fear that makes the mind bind the chariot to a swift beast. The line that she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion points to the inner origin of what the world calls sin: a private impulse that has not been questioned. Zion, the daughter, represents your awakened consciousness receiving that impulse as if it were real; the transgressions found in thee are the mis-tunings your inner state permits to pass into outer scenes. The remedy is not to blame Lachish but to re-dream it into harmony. The I AM—the you who is awareness—remains untouched by the panic of the moment. When you assume a new inner state, the chariot is not released into a wild sprint but yoked to a purpose of inner peace. Through imaginative revision, you declare: I am the I AM; I halt the swift beast; I move with measured intention, and the outward world adjusts to that inward truth.