Rock of Prayer and I Am

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, the Psalmist’s cry is not asking a distant deity to intervene, but a turning of attention. 'Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock' becomes the realization that the Rock is the I AM within you, a stable consciousness that cannot be silenced by fear. When the speaker pleads, 'be not silent to me,' he teaches that inner silence is the condition of false identities; to hear is to awake. The 'holy oracle' is the inner law of imagination; lifting the hands toward it is lifting your awareness to that principle. The request to 'draw me not away with the wicked' translates as refusing to identify with a lower thought-world; 'peace' spoken outwardly is a criterion of inner alignment, while 'mischief in their hearts' exposes the unreconciled thoughts. The closing curse is the inner law meting out consequences according to your inner deeds—your habitual thoughts create your outward forms. So deliverance and judgment are inner moves of consciousness; by choosing a higher state now, the outer world rearranges to reflect it.