Claiming the Inner Promised Land

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville's voice, the passage reveals that the 'land' is the field of your own consciousness, while the 'inhabitants' are persistent beliefs, habits, and self-concepts preventing you from resting in the I AM. The 'pictures' and 'molten images' are the mental pictures you have rehearsed as truth, and the 'high places' are elevated identities you mistake for your life. To drive them out is not an outward conquest but a revision in consciousness: refuse to center your life in those images and affirm that you already possess the land by the I AM within. Since God has given you the land, your act is to assume its possession now, feel the steady calm of the present I AM, and dwell there in imagination until the old pictures crumble and you naturally act from the new state. The result is a reintegrated, harmonious life, where you live from the inner kingdom rather than outer appearances, and the land you sought becomes your ordinary awareness.