Whispers to the Spirits Within

Neville's Inner Vision

To you, the verse reveals that the 'spirits in prison' are the stubborn states of mind you wear as fact. The proclamation is your inner I AM announcing truth to the locked rooms of consciousness; the ones who disbelieved during Noah's era are the old fears that could not yet welcome the new image you are forming. The long-suffering of God waiting while the ark is prepared is your patient, creative imagination at work, building the ark of faith in the only place that matters—the mind you inhabit. The eight souls saved by water symbolize the handful of realized states who refuse the flood of despair and ride the new current of life your image awakens. Baptism is not a ritual cleansing of the body; it is the inward act, the assumption that your good conscience toward God is now answered by the resurrection-life within you. The ascension—Christ at the right hand of God—signifies your awareness ruling every power, while angels, authorities, and powers bow to your inner Christ. You are the one who determines which reality leads.