The Inner Love Commandment

Neville's Inner Vision

Your God is not somewhere beyond; God is the I AM within you, the awareness that imagines and endures. When 1 John says, If a man says he loves God and hates his brother, he lies, it is not a rebuke of others but a diagnosis of your own inner state. The brother you see is the surface image of your inner dispositions toward others. If you would love God whom you have seen, begin by loving the brother you have seen, for the two loves are one motion of consciousness. This is the immutable law: obedience without the inner alignment is merely form. So revise your inner sense until you feel toward your neighbor as you would toward your own I AM. Bless him, forgive him, forgive yourself for desiring separation, and recognize you are already one in the field of imagination. When the feeling is real, your world becomes a reflection of that unity, and love for God becomes love for every face you meet.