The Inner Cup of Trembling

Neville's Inner Vision

Your inner city is the Jerusalem of your consciousness. When you sense the cup of trembling, you are not facing a distant siege; you are entertaining fear within and begging for security from without. The I that voices the fear is not the real you; the real I AM stands behind every image, the unshaken watcher who can rewrite the scene by assumption. Zechariah says that God will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling for all around; in Neville's terms, that is the moment you believe your awareness is bound to appearances. The remedy is not to battle the world, but to assume a different inner conviction: I am the I AM, the city that cannot be sieged. If you dwell in that state, the stone becomes light to carry, not drag you down. As you revise the feeling—feel safety, abundance, completion—you awaken the power to render the perceived siege impotent. Your imagination creates the new reality; vivid, steady feeling will outlive fear.