Inner Faith, False Spirits

Neville's Inner Vision

Within you the Spirit speaks expressly; the 'latter times' are not a future hour but the moment you discover habitual thoughts that pretend to sever you from truth. Seducing spirits are the subtle voices of doubt and fear that lure you toward a doctrine that limits and condemns. These powers are not outside forces but inner pictures that seem to govern your days. When you assent to them, you feel guilt, separation, and the sense that some joys must be forbidden—symbolized by forbidding marriage or denying what God has created as good. The remedy is to remember that God created all things to be received with thanksgiving by those who know the truth, i.e., you as the I AM. Make a new assumption: 'I am the awareness that never fears, never condemns; I choose truth, freedom, and gratitude.' Then feel it real by dwelling in that state, letting the old prohibitions fade as your inner vision expands. Your imagination, rightly stewarded, becomes your life—the outer world is the dream you continue to rehearse.