Milk and Honey: Symbols of Imaginative Abundance
In Neville’s interpretation, milk and honey represent the dual qualities of nourishment and pleasure that imagination brings. Milk is sustaining; honey is sweet. Together, they point to a flow of creative energy — the kind of internal richness that, once accessed, overflows naturally into one’s outer world.
The land that “flows” with these gifts is not found on any map — it’s the awakened imagination, aligned with desire and expectation.
“I have come down to deliver them... to a land flowing with milk and honey.”
This moment signals the divine descent into human awareness. It's not about God rescuing from the outside, but about consciousness itself waking up to its own power. The “deliverance” is from spiritual forgetfulness into the realisation that imagination creates reality.
(Exodus 3:8)
“We came to the land... it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.”
Here, the spies bring back evidence of the land’s fertility. The “fruit” represents manifested desires — the visible outcome of one who dwells in an inner state of fulfilled imagination.
(Numbers 13:27)
“When I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey...”
This isn't a future event, but a statement about what happens when one enters a new state of being. You are “brought in” whenever you assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled.
(Deuteronomy 31:20)
Milk and Honey Under the Tongue: The Song of Solomon
Where the earlier scriptures point to a land, the Song of Solomon moves the focus inward, to the lover and the beloved — the union of conscious thought with subconscious receptivity.
“Your lips drop sweetness as the honeycomb, my bride; milk and honey are under your tongue.”
The beloved becomes the embodiment of creative sweetness. Her words, like imagination itself, nourish and delight, echoing the inner dialogue of one in perfect union with their desire.
(Song of Solomon 4:11)
“Your mouth is sweetness itself; honey and milk are under your tongue.”
This repeated image deepens the symbolism. It is in the spoken word, in the assumption and declaration of what is true, that the creative power is released. The tongue becomes the gateway to manifestation.
(Song of Solomon 7:9)
“I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, friends, and drink; drink your fill of love.”
The full enjoyment of inner abundance — the feast of fulfilled imagination. Once the union is complete, once the state is occupied, one is invited to revel in the fruit of their own assumption.
(Song of Solomon 5:1)
From Wilderness to Abundance
Throughout the Hebrew Bible, the land is often dry, the women barren, the wilderness vast. This is no accident. It represents states of consciousness where imagination is blocked, resisted, or forgotten.
The land of milk and honey, by contrast, is not given — it is entered. It is the return to Eden’s creative flow, where rivers of abundance are restored. And it is from this land — not from effort or merit — that the sweetness of life begins to pour out.
Living in the Land Within
To live in the land flowing with milk and honey is to imagine vividly and believe fully. It is to feel the reality of your desire so deeply that you dwell in its fulfilment — regardless of appearances. As Neville taught, “Assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled.”
The Song of Solomon reveals the love affair between the self and the imagination. The “land” is not distant. It is under your tongue, between your thoughts, alive in every inner word and image.
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