Death of the Child, Renewal of Life

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville’s sense, the boy is a state of consciousness that has outgrown its former mode. The father and mother are inner faculties—the active will and the nurturing intuition—taking charge of the state as it shifts. The boy stepping out to the reapers signals outward activity driven by the mind seeking form; the cry 'My head' is the call of a worn-out belief seeking relief. When the lad is carried to his mother and dies upon her knees, the scene marks the end of one life-state and the surrender of its old story to a deeper inner life. Do not fear the death; it is the Law of consciousness transforming itself. The mother’s knee is the altar where new life is conceived—where you renounce the old limitation and align with the impression of healing already done. Your job is to revise the impression, to assume the healed state here and now, to feel the blood pulsing with vitality, to declare 'I am the life that heals,' and to dwell in that state until it feels real. In that moment, the outward appears to shift, and a new vitality arises from within.