Inward Exodus of Consciousness

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of these lines not as external history but as inner movements of your now-present I AM. The voice that says, 'thou hast cast off' is the arising belief that you are separate from your own divine awareness. The marching host you expect—your armies—become the aligned faculties of imagination, memory, and intention moving as one upon the inner field. When this unity is interrupted, you experience being turned back by an inner 'enemy' of fear, doubt, or habit; you feel spoiled by that which resists you, and you are scattered among 'heathen' thoughts and distractions. Yet the Psalmist asks you to notice who you truly are: the self that can call forth a new order, even where it feels persecuted by circumstance. The remedy is not outward obedience but inward calm, the assumption that the I AM is always your defense and your home. If you revise the scene—see your inner army stepping forth with you, and feel the moment as already accomplished—you normalize the impression that you are never truly overthrown, only shifted in the drama of your own mind.