Inner Baptism Awakening

Neville's Inner Vision

Verse three of Acts invites you to notice that the baptism spoken of is not a ceremony restricted to a river or a book, but a state of consciousness. The question, unto what then were ye baptized, exposes an inner misalignment: they answered with John’s rite, an appeal to repentance outwardly, while the heart was beckoned toward an inner Christ. In Neville’s language, the I AM here is the only water that cleanses, the only identity you can inhabit so that what you do flows from a Knowing, not from fear or obligation. When you realize you have been baptized into the same life that John preached as preparation, you recognize that true repentance is turning your attention from outer forms to the inner sun of awareness. The ego's wet cloak falls away as you imagine the Christ consciousness as your present condition, trusting that this inner baptism remakes memory, motive, and contact with the world. Thus, the scene becomes a doorway: you revise your sense of self until you feel the Christ within rising in place of the old identity.