Inner Wilderness Provocation

Neville's Inner Vision

These lines are not a history lesson to be argued about; they are a map of your inner weather. The wilderness is a state of consciousness where attention wanders, becomes bored, or doubts the power that delivered you. Provocation and grief are inner movements that tighten around your awareness, causing you to turn back from the present moment and to tempt God by insisting the power you seek lies outside or in the past. When you remember not the day of your deliverance, you are tacitly saying that the Holy One of Israel is not now available through your imagination. The miracle works through your attention; to limit the Holy One is to limit your own I AM. To reverse this, adopt a new premise: you are always delivering yourself through consciousness. Assume the deliverance as a currently existing fact. Feel it as real in your lungs, your heart, and your nerves. Rehearse the signs in your imagination as if they were happening now. The Egypts and Zoans are only memories you can outgrow by living from the end of the wish fulfilled rather than from the need.