Inner Witnesses, Outer War

Neville's Inner Vision

On this page, the two witnesses are any two steadfast aspects of your consciousness—your awareness and your will—bearing witness to the truth you desire. When the 'beast' from the bottomless pit rises, it represents the old habits of fear and separation that oppose your new state. The killing of the witnesses is not vengeance but a breaking of the old story; the dead bodies lying in the street of the great city symbolize the remnants of your former self, the belief that you are divided from the life you seek. The city being called Sodom and Egypt marks a mind still enslaved to bondage and self-justifying critique. Yet the scene is seen by all the earth, showing that your old state is radiant enough to be noticed, even mocked. In Neville’s view, transformation comes when you stop opposing the scene and instead revise the inner assumption, feel the wish fulfilled, and declare I AM the reality here and now. As you persist, the inner witnesses revive in a new light, and the city’s cry becomes your own joyful exhale of new life.