The Inner Purge of Zephaniah

Neville's Inner Vision

Zephaniah 1:2 speaks to a complete purging of the outer condition so that the inner land of awareness may be revealed. In Neville's language, God is the I AM within you, the living consciousness by which you recognize yourself. Utter consumption, then, is not an assault but a shifting of your attention away from transient forms—money, appearances, reputation—and toward the steady state of awareness that you already are. When you accept that the outer world is the effect of your inner state, you invite the destruction of old forms and the birth of a new atmosphere within. This is exile from the old land and return to the inner kingdom where the I AM remains unchanged, and where your life rearranges itself to reflect the certainty you insist upon in imagination. Let the decree awaken your discipline: dwell in awareness, and let the old conditions be dissolved by the power of your realized self.