The Inner Coming of Christ

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, the coming spoken of by Paul is not a distant event in time, but a revival of consciousness. The Lord Jesus Christ appears wherever you claim the I AM as your center and move your attention from lack or fear to that steadfast Presence. When you say 'by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto Him,' you are declaring that your entire inner world gathers around a single, inseparable reality—the Christ within. This gathering is not a crowd outside you but a harmony of states: confidence replacing doubt, peace replacing frenzy, and vision replacing confusion. Imagination is the instrument by which the promised reunion is made tangible; to imagine is to align your mental atmosphere with that which you desire to see in form. The awakening within is now; you simply revise your sense of self to include that inward Presence as the ruler of your experience.