Inner Marching Alarms

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture the alarm as a call of attention in your own mind. When you blow the alarm, you declare a movement in your consciousness; the eastward aspect of your being moves forward, the southern aspect follows. This is not a physical march but a change of state. The camps symbolize your dispositions—habitual attitudes you carry—each awaiting its turn to enact your chosen scene. To permit gathering, you do not sound the alarm; you align, you soften, you unify the dispersed parts of self under one-appointed I AM. The congregation is your inward unity; to assemble it you refuse to fan the senses with fear, doubt, or resistance. By perceiving the inner order as already complete, you dispatch the inner commands with confidence and the 'camp' moves in obedience to your revised faith. Thus the external pattern of marching becomes a symbol of your inner adaptation: you move in harmony toward a state you have assumed as real.