Weapons Return to Self

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the line not as a threat against others, but as a description of inner law. The sword and the bow are the images a consciousness uses when it fears accusation, risk, or loss. In Neville’s inner grammar, such weapons do not strike from without; they spring from a state of mind and return to that state as the sense of danger collapses. When one holds the belief that others will harm them, that belief travels with the attacker until it hits their own heart, awakening disappointment, remorse, and self-correction. Hence the heart becomes the battlefield where imagination circulates and rewards its own former fear with its undoing. The remedy is simple: assume a different inner state, the awareness I AM that witnesses all images. When you revise the inner scene—seeing yourself safe, seeing the attackers' weapons as ineffective projections—the external sword breaks and the bow is rendered useless. Not by changing others, but by changing your inner position until protection, justice, and providence appear as your natural condition.