Dissolving Enemies Within

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville's terms, the workers of iniquity are not outside powers but states of consciousness that pretend to govern your life. They feed on your attention, the way thoughts feed on belief, eating up your sense of peace as you forget to call upon God, the I AM within. When you identify with a separate self, you fear as if danger is real, and you feel as if you are surrounded by an army. Yet the line 'God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee' is a metaphor for the collapse of those false images when you remember your true state. By calling upon the I AM and holding the awareness of unity, you displace the imagined army; you neither deny the world nor your experience, but you change the script by assuming your true nature. The fear dissolves as your mind realizes it is the one sentient presence—God—perceiving through you, and the supposed enemies crumble into insignificance.