Tempest Of Inner Awakening

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the inner vision Neville teaches, this line is not a call to war with others but a summons to reclaim your own consciousness. The tempest and the storm are inner movements—the surge of fear, the trembling belief, the sense of being pursued by circumstance. The 'them' to be persecuted is the stubborn, limited self you have accepted as real. When you feel persecuted by life, you are not at the mercy of a distant God; you are being shown the exact state of your own mind that must be altered. God, the I AM, is your awareness, not a punitive force outside your door. The order to persecute with tempest is a directive to confront and dissolve the old image by imagining a new scene where you stand as sovereign over the weather of your world. As you persist in the conviction that your desire is already realized, the inner storm loses its grip and clarity returns. The change you seek is always an inward revision that echoes outwardly; the outer is only the shadow of your inner state.