Inner Love, Outer Brotherhood

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, the apostle's verse discloses a radical inner truth: God is the I AM within you, and that I AM loves first. You do not commend yourself to God by outward piety; you awaken to love by recognizing that His first love has already stirred your consciousness. To love Him is to confirm and express the love that already exists as your state of being. The brother you see is not separate from this inner current; he is a reflection of your own inner dispositions. When you hate what you see in another, you are simply insisting that your inner state lacks the very love you claim to seek. The remedy is not to fight the world but to revise your assumption—see the neighbor as the image of your own divine nature and bless him in the I AM. As you dwell in this consciousness, your outer world aligns with it; the commandment to love God and to love your brother becomes one living, present reality.