Inner Unity and Correction

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, the Corinthians are a mirror of the soul. The 'I fear' and the listed disturbances—debates, envyings, wrath, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults—are not scattered people but states of consciousness that pretend to separate the self from its own light. When Paul says, 'my God will humble me among you,' that is the inner discipline by which the ego is brought to its knees, not a punishment upon others. The lament over those who 'have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness' reveals the stubborn habit of clinging to lower impulses. The healing, then, is not a reform of behavior alone but a revision of inner assumption: that the self is divided, that unity is not already yours. By imagining the scene differently—seeing the gathering as a reflection of your perfected state—you awaken the power to coexist in holy accord. The present moment becomes the place where repentance occurs, and the inner humility becomes the precipice from which you ascend into wholeness. In short, the coming of the 'I AM' into awareness dissolves the imagined tumults.