Gospel to the Dead, Living in Spirit

Neville's Inner Vision

Take the verse as a decree about your inner life. The dead are not others, but the parts of you that have forgotten their oneness with the I AM. The gospel comes to them to overturn the pull of the fleshly image, to break the habit of being judged by appearances, and to awaken the truth that you are not condemned by outer men but raised by inner Spirit. When you imagine, you are not performing for heaven’s sake; you are choosing the state you inhabit. The judge here is inner awareness; living according to God in the Spirit is the natural expression of the I AM within you. If you feel oppressed by life’s judgments, revise: you are the living embodiment of God in Spirit, and all so-called death is a temporary dream dissolving in the light of consciousness. Your present experiences are the effects of your inner assumptions. By assuming the truth of your spiritual birth, you override the world’s verdicts and awaken to the resurrection of your own consciousness.