Inner Wealth and Mercy

Neville's Inner Vision

Zechariah places before you a scene in which a ruling state of consciousness harms life for profit and calls its actions righteous. The act of slaying represents the inner dynamics that destroy vitality in pursuit of possession, while the insistence of guiltlessness reveals a self-concept so identified with wealth that conscience is silenced. The line about wealth being proclaimed as blessing lets you see how the mind uses external riches to validate an inner inversion: I am defined by what I own, not by how I love. Their shepherds who pity them not are your inner guides or instincts that fail to awaken when you are trapped in the dream of separation. In truth, you are the I AM, the unalterable awareness that supplies all things. When you take this seriously, you can recognize that the urge to dominate or accumulate is merely a mistaken state you have allowed to occupy your mind. The remedy is not guilt but a conversion of your imagination: identify wealth as inner abundance and let mercy be the measure by which you judge reality.