Inner Subjection, Outer Trials

Neville's Inner Vision

Let us enter the state the text describes as a spiritual condition of mind. Your apparent master and the cause of your troubles are only outer pictures of an inner disposition. The command to be subject with all fear is not a social rule but a reminder that your entire life arrangement is a dream of your own consciousness, and you are the dreaming I AM. When you suffer wrongfully, you are not being wronged by persons but by your own misidentification with a belief that you are at the mercy of circumstances. The moment you fix in your imagination the truth that I am subject only to the law of God within me you begin to rise above the scene. The glory he speaks of is the inner validation that you have chosen the higher state; the outward buffeting becomes a harmless effect of a past state dissolving. Enduring is not passivity but discipline of the mind, a revision of the story until it feels true. In that state, your obstacles become signals of your awakening, and God is the I AM within you approving your patience.