Awakening Inner Authority

Neville's Inner Vision

To the reader, the words Arise, O LORD, in thine anger are not about an external sky god in rage, but about the moment your own consciousness awakens to misalignment and insists on alignment. The 'LORD' is the I AM within you, the steady watching presence that can lift itself when you see fear and disharmony as thoughts in need of correction. When you say 'lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies,' you are inviting your awareness to rise above the petty conflicts of the surface mind, to let the true state of you—calm, clear, sovereign—assert itself. The phrase 'awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded' means you declare and live by a standard of inner law you set in consciousness, not by outer verdicts. The line about the congregation encircling thee about is the chorus of your thoughts and feelings surrounding your center; the call to 'return thou on high' is the soul returning to its highest imagined state. In this reinterpretation, justice is inner alignment, and power is awareness made steady.