Inner Fire Of Judgment

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the Neville lens, Nahum's verdict is not a historical doom but a map of the mind's inner states. 'There shall the fire devour thee' is the cleansing fire of awareness that consumes the image of power outside you. The 'sword' is the discernment that cuts away the belief that you are bound to a hostile force; 'eat thee up like the cankerworm' signals the self-sown multiplication of fear-thoughts when you identify with a finite self. The call to 'make thyself many as the cankerworm ... locusts' exposes how a mind feeds on its own thoughts, producing a crowded, noisy inner orchestra. In Neville's practice, you reverse this by assuming the I AM as your true state, letting the inner fire dissolve the belief in separate threat, and imagining yourself as already delivered, whole, and unaffected. Your life becomes the demonstration that the outer event is but a mirror of your inner condition, now rewritten by awareness.