Inner Plagues, Inner Freedom

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, these outward wonders are inner events disguised as history. Rivers turned to blood symbolize the mind's belief that its life-stream is corrupted and undrinkable; the floods that cannot be drunk mirror the sense of deprivation that follows a mistaken identity. Flies, frogs, caterpillars, and locusts are images of restless, intrusive thoughts—negatives that devour peace and labor under fear. The hail and frost upon vines and sycamore trees reflect the crushing judgments that a consciousness imposes when it forgets its unity with the I AM. The killing of cattle, the pestilence, and the death of the firstborn express how a mind coerces life out of itself when it yields to separation and anger, a pathology that God’s anger and wrath merely codify as the consequence of belief. Yet the essential truth remains: the creator of these scenes is not some external tyrant but the I AM within you, your awareness imagining its realities into form. By turning the mind back to its true nature, one can reverse the script—assume the I AM as your one and only reality, and let the sense of life, order, and protection return.