From Child to Inner Man

Neville's Inner Vision

In this passage, Paul invites you to graduate from the condition of a child to the condition of a man—the consciousness that outgrows childish assumptions and claims full mastery of its realm. The 'glass' is not a veil in the sky, but your current state of awareness. Where you think you see only fragments, you are waking to the face-to-face knowledge of what you are truly known as by your own I AM. Faith, hope, and charity are not external virtues you acquire; they are states you dwell in within, produced by conscious assumption. To the one who asks, 'Where is God?' answer: God is the I AM that you are aware of, and imagination is your instrument. When you feel the fullness of love—charity—present now, you align with the correction of perception and begin to know in full what you now know in part. In time, the mind, fixed in its own noble image, rests in the certainty that you are already the man you seek to be.