Inner Wisdom of the Living Child

Neville's Inner Vision

Inside you now, two states contend for the living child of life: the living idea you truly want, and the counterfeit belief that it must be taken away. The night that yields the substitute is your thought patterns that keep you asleep to your oneness. When you awaken to the morning of consciousness and examine the image you are nursing, you see which is truly alive. The living son is the idea you are willing to protect by your inner decree that it is already yours; the counterfeit is the fear that would steal it. Solomon’s plain question becomes your inner practice: stand for the living possibility and refuse the lie that would divide it. If you would know the living child, declare inwardly: this is the real state now, and I am not moved by appearances. The moment you feel it real—felt as if it already inhabits you—you transfer the child to your bosom, and the image becomes your outer world.