Tongue and Tail of Power

Neville's Inner Vision

To the awakened I AM, the beasts of Revelation are not external foes but states of consciousness. Their power is said to be in their mouth and in their tails, meaning your life bends to the quality of your inner speech and to the habitual images you drag behind you. The tails, serpents with heads, are your recurring thoughts and fears that strike you as if alive only because you keep turning toward them. The heads atop the tails symbolize the illusion that you are merely a puppet of those habits, while the real actor is the I AM, always present, watching. When you rehearse their hiss and their bite, you empower them; your world becomes a symptom of the stories you repeat in the imagination. But you can reverse this by assuming a different reality: the I AM is sovereign, and you speak from that consciousness alone. Let the serpent-tails fall limp by not entertaining them, and let your words issue from quiet power, turning every cry into a blessing, every hurt into a door for the light within you to shine.