Nahum's Inner Fortress: Waters and Bricks

Neville's Inner Vision

To the Neville reader, the siege is the pressure of life and the story you tell about it. Draw thy waters for the siege means draw from the deep well of awareness the life you will need to endure and transform it with imagination. Fortify thy strong holds is the invitation to strengthen the inner habit patterns—the beliefs you live by when facing trial. When Nahum speaks of clay and mortar, it invites you to work with the very material of your mind—the emotional and cognitive substrata you have shaped—pressing and smoothing them until the structure becomes solid. The brickkiln is the habitation of your eventual reality, a durable inner chamber where your desires are baked into form through consistent assumption. The image teaches that your external conditions mirror your inner state; you alter the image inside, and conditions adjust to match. Begin now by assuming the feeling of protection and mastery, and by repeatedly visualizing the inner brickkiln being built brick by brick.