Unity by I Am: 1 Corinthians 11:11-12

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the inner eye, these verses describe a state of consciousness, not a social rule. The 'man' and the 'woman' are symbolic faculties within you—masculine and feminine energies—that cannot express fullness apart from one another when realized in the Lord, which is your aware I AM. In this inner kingdom, the line 'neither the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man' declares that your being expands only by the interplay of these aspects. The phrase 'the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman' speaks to the mutual origin of your inner life and its expressions; yet 'all things of God' tells you that this movement arises from divine consciousness. Therefore your relationships—marriage, family, community—mirror the unity of consciousness itself. When you feel divided, you are imagining separation; when you assume the one state of I AM, you witness the other arising within you. Your world is conditioned by your inner state; change the state, and the outer scene follows.