Inner Armor of Faith and Hope

Neville's Inner Vision

Within these words you are being called to awaken to the day of your conscious life. 'Let us … be sober' means keep an uncluttered, clear state of awareness, not swayed by fear or desire. The 'breastplate of faith and love' is your inner armor—the steady trust in the I AM and the radiance of loving-kindness you hold toward life. When faith and love are worn as a shield, you neither project nor absorb the storms of opinion; you reflect toward creation a certainty of being. The 'helmet, the hope of salvation' is the mind's golden helmet: the confident expectation that right now you are saved in the sense of complete wholeness, safety, and right conditions arising from your own inner state. Thus, salvation is not future deliverance but your present state of awareness under the spell of waking consciousness. By imagining and feeling that you are already this healed and shielded, you convert the outer events to echo your inner frame.