The Inner Temptress Within

Neville's Inner Vision

In Proverbs 9 you hear the call of folly sitting at the door, promising sweetness in stolen waters and secret bread. Neville’s reading sees the scene as an inner drama: the door, the seat, the city are states of consciousness; the speaker is a competing impulse inside your awareness. You are not the passenger lured by a street cry, you are the I AM, the pure awareness that just notices. The temptation tries to pass itself off as pleasure, yet its guests are the dead—mere thoughts and feelings that imprison you when you mistake sensation for truth. The law is intimate and exact: life moves from your inner assumptions. When you assume the posture of wisdom, you no longer turn toward the pull of craving; you revise the image, declare that true satisfaction comes from your own I AM and the quiet discernment it births. See the illusion for what it is, and let the mind withdraw its consent. The moment you align with the inner governor, the door closes on folly and a new, luminous reality arises from within.