Caught Up in the Inner Air

Neville's Inner Vision

To Paul, the 'coming of the Lord' is not a distant event but a turning of your own mind toward a clearer awareness. The dead in Christ are the old beliefs and fears you buried; they rise when you stop feeding them with worry and begin to attend to your true I AM. The shout, the voice, the trump are inner signals—moments of decision when consciousness declares, 'I choose to see.' The phrase 'we which are alive and remain' speaks to the state that remains awake inside you, even as old stories fade. 'Caught up together with them in the clouds' denotes an ascent of mood and perception into a higher atmosphere of peace, where separation dissolves. 'Meet the Lord in the air' simply means meeting the Lord, your own higher self, in the realm of imagination. When you train your attention in this way, the final line—'so shall we ever be with the Lord'—becomes your habitual state: you dwell in union with the I AM, here and now, by the power of imagining and believing your end as already present.