Revelation 17:7 Inner Mystery

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture the angel as your inner wisdom, politely lifting the curtain from your attention. The woman and the beast are not distant rulers but states of consciousness you entertain. The woman, idolizing forms—wealth, status, fear—carries herself along by your belief; the beast with seven heads and ten horns represents the many ruling thoughts that accompany that belief. When you marvel at them, you are simply admiring an outer drama born of an inner identification. The mystery, then, is not a far-off cipher but the fact that you, the I AM, are the one who names, sustains, and can release them. The moment you refuse to be defined by the image, you revise your inner scenario, and the external symbols lose their hold. In this light, the angel's promise becomes practical: know yourself as the awareness that is always unmoved, and the scene of idolatry dissolves into light.