The Wicked Counselor Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Nahum’s single verse, the accusation springs from an inner counselor, a self-projected adviser born of pride and fear. That wicked counselor imagines evil against the LORD, yet the LORD is not a distant tyrant but the I AM you awaken to as awareness. The verse names this inner trait to show you that judgment and malice do not come from without, but from a state of consciousness that has forgotten its own Source. When you identify with the inner counsellor—he who whispers plots and doom—you forget that imagination is the only creator of appearances. The remedy is not reform of others but reform of your own inner atmosphere. Deny the counselor’s power by reaffirming your I AM presence, proclaiming that you are the observer and the diplomat of truth, not the prey of fear. In silent, imaginative revision you dissolve the imagined adversary by turning the mind’s gaze toward unity with God within. The wicked counsellor dissolves as you settle into the fact that you are always and only the I AM, and from that seat you discern rightly, judge soberly, and move in peace.