Inner Walls of Spirit

Neville's Inner Vision

All three lines reveal the inner architecture of the man who awakens. The 'righteous man' who falls before the wicked is not virtuous in the inner sense but out of alignment with the I AM; the fountain is troubled because the inner flows are not directed by conscious awareness. When you bow to what you call 'the world'—praise, power, ease—you concede authority to appearances and scatter your energy. The 'honey' speaks of flattery and self-admiration; to hunt your own glory is to mistake the image for the reality. Real glory is the quiet sovereignty of the self ruled by the spirit; to have no rule over your own spirit is to dwell as a city without walls, open to every wind of impulse. The remedy is not renunciation but reinvestment of attention into the I AM, the one constant which makes order out of seeming chaos. When you assume the state 'I govern my spirit and am the ruler of my inner city,' you begin to re-build the walls and restore the fountain.