Inner Light in Nahum 3:16-17

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture Nahum’s city as the within-world of your own mind. The merchants multiplying above the stars are the restless urges to possess, to accumulate, to prove your worth through wealth. The cankerworm that spoils and flees is the decay of those values when faced with true being. Your crowned and your captains are not rulers in a city, but the recurring patterns of pride and outward regard that seem formidable in the cold daylight. Yet when the sun arises—the awakeness of your I AM—they melt away, leaving no trace, for they were never solid you but thoughts moving through your consciousness. The verse is a map, not a doom: notice where fear of lack and the appetite for material praise rise within you, for those are the very pests that scatter your sense of abundance. By recognizing that you are the one consciousness that imagines this scene, you can reverse it by a simple practice: imagine the sun of awareness shining on the scene, and declare that you are already wealth, provision, and security as being, not as external goods. In this light, the exodus from fear becomes natural and inevitable.