The Word of Life Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Here John is guiding you to an inner demonstration rather than a distant history. The 'Word of Life' is the living idea in your own consciousness—the Life that eternally is, and that your awareness can encounter as present now. To say it was 'from the beginning' points you inward, to the unchanging source within you where Life and God are already real. When you 'hear' and 'see' and 'handle' this Word in imagination, you are not describing external events but turning your attention to the Life that already animates you. Your inner testimony— 'we have seen and bear witness'—becomes your practice of made manifest awareness: you declare to yourself that Life has been manifested to you as your very feeling, thought, and sense of presence. The declared fellowship with the Father and His Son is the alignment of your consciousness with that Life, the recognition that you are one with the divine stream within. The purpose of witness is communion, not conquest: as you dwell in the awareness of the Word, you enter the same inner fellowship, and your outer world begins to reflect that unity.