Inner Revival Through Imagination

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, the story is not about a boy raised from literal death, but about consciousness resurrected by a steadfast I AM favored by imagination. The widow’s fear and the mother’s testy question mirror our own grip of lack pressing against life. Elijah emerges as a potent state of mind—awareness in action—who takes the dead image out of the body's room and places it in the loft of prayer, where more subtle energies can be called forth. When Elijah stretches himself on the child three times, he represents repeating assumption until life stirs within the deep inner channels. The cry, 'O LORD my God' is the soul crying to itself; and the Lord answers as the soul recognizes the truth it already knew—that life is God and God is life in the I AM. The revival of the child is a symbol of life returning to a state of consciousness that believed itself separate from its source. The woman's testimony—'thy son liveth'—shows that once the inner conviction is declared, the outer form follows, proving the word true in your own day.