Inner Discipline of Proverbs

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the inner theater, the scorner is a hardened attitude of the mind, the simple is the waking conscience, and the understanding stands ready to listen. When you "smite a scorner" in imagination, you shock the stubborn habit and awaken the part of you that is teachable; when you "reprove one that hath understanding," the higher self speaks to your own understanding until it says, I understand knowledge. The line about the son who wastes his father and chases away his mother points to neglect of your inner foundations—your grounding in order, truth, and love. Such neglect breeds shame and reproach in your experience. Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that leads you astray; turn toward the instruction that is true knowledge, the words that preserve you from error. An ungodly witness scorneth judgment—that is, when you resist inner correction, your inner voice becomes compromised, and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity. Yet judgments are prepared for scorers and stripes for the back of fools, meaning your inner weather follows your allegiance. Choose the correction that refines you and returns you to the Light of I AM.