Body and Freedom Within You

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider that 'all things are lawful' is the liberty of consciousness, the fact that you as I AM may imagine any scene. Yet the inner counsel warns: not all images are expedient, for you will not be brought under the power of any image or appetite. The belly and the meats are symbols of surface cravings; God shall destroy both when you cling to them as power. The body is not for fornication but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. In this, the truth is that your form exists for the expression of your divine presence. You are not a slave to appetite, you are the ruler—the I AM who imagines and thus creates. When you revise a craving by saying, 'I am the Lord of my body; I govern its use by the Lord within,' you feel the impulse melt into order. Imagination, rightly directed, makes the inner state visible as outer form. So dwell on the consciousness that you are the Lord of your own being, and practice feeling that you already live in that harmony.