Inner Sacrifice, Purified Land

Neville's Inner Vision

Let us reinterpret this psalm as a note on inner life. The 'sons and daughters' are aspects of your own consciousness—your fresh impulses, loves, and loyalties—not literal children. The 'devils' are false beliefs, idols of fear, guilt, and compulsion that pretend to govern you. When you yield to these idols, you sacrifice parts of yourself, draining vitality in ritualized habits, and your inner land becomes polluted with the blood of agitation and alarm. The outer world then mirrors that inner pollution: relationships strain, conditions seem barren, and the land you inhabit feels defiled. Neville’s counsel would have you see that such pictures disappear when you shift your state of consciousness. The cure is simple: you must assume a different state, revise the belief that you are commanded by devils, and feel the truth of your own I AM presence as real here and now. When you maintain that unwavering awareness, guilt dissolves, fear subsides, and the land—your mental field—cleanses; the idols fall, and the life you seek flows freely through you.