Nearness Makes the Pillars Stand

Neville's Inner Vision

These verses speak from the I AM that dwells within you. The name of God is near not as a distant deity but as your own awakened awareness, the consciousness that recognizes and declares the works you have begun in imagination. Gratitude here is a recognition of inner reality: when you say unto God we give thanks, you affirm that your life proceeds from the presence that never leaves you. The line about receiving the congregation and judging uprightly translates to aligning your inner decisions with a just, peaceful state of mind. The radical claim that the earth and all its inhabitants are dissolved points to the moment inner certainty dissolves outer appearances—not by argument but by the power of your consistent feeling-tone. And I bear up the pillars of it signifies that the world rests on your sustained awareness. In Neville's method, you do not resist change but rather revise your sense of it by dwelling in the end of a fulfilled state. By embodying the nearness of God and the certainty of inner works, you sustain a larger reality through your present awareness.