Gospel Power Within Thessalonians

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this text the gospel is not a public speech; it is a state of consciousness made flesh. The power and Holy Ghost are the inner energies of awareness that animate your word when you accept it as true of you. The much assurance is the unwavering conviction that the state you desire is already seated within you. When the Thessalonians became followers of us and of the Lord, they symbolize the self you recognize as your higher self, one who imitates the calm, confident presence you see in your inner teacher. The line about receiving the word in affliction with joy shows that trials are not external proofs but inner resistances dissolving as you dwell in the desired state. The presence of power and joy of the Holy Ghost means your imagination, applied with persistence, changes your outer circumstances by changing your inner atmosphere. In Neville's view the gospel is always present: you need only assume it as your current reality, feel it as if it is done, and it becomes your living experience.