Inner Salvation in Psalms 53:5-6

Neville's Inner Vision

In this psalm, fear is not an external army but a state of consciousness that seems to encamp against you. The line that there were they in great fear where no fear was is the moment when you mistake a phenomenon for the real you. The 'bones' scattered by God are the shattered beliefs of limitation—an inner demonstration that the imagined siege cannot endure when confronted with the I AM. In Neville's terms, God is your awareness, and the true attack is your own doubt; when you refuse to entertain it, the enemy dissolves, and the apparent defeat loses its grip. The salvation of Israel coming out of Zion is the inner gift of realization rising from the hidden center of your being. Zion is the state of consciousness in which you know God hath despised the adversary, and the captivity of your mind is overturned. When you abide in that state and feel it as real now, Jacob rejoices and Israel is glad. Thus the verse teaches that deliverance is not a future event but a present, experienced shift in consciousness.