Turning Zeal Into Inner Christ

Neville's Inner Vision

Saul's confession that he verily thought with himself reveals a vivid state of mind: a sense of duty to oppose what he calls the name of Jesus. The name stands for the Christ within, and to persecute it is to resist the inner truth of who you are. The external priests and the hungry zeal describe the habitual scripts of thought that claim authority over your mind, imprisoning saints as if they were enemies. When he speaks of punishing them and driving them to blaspheme, you hear the emotional energy of a mind convinced of its correctness, marching into strange cities of belief. Neville would call this a misdirected imagination, a state of consciousness that can be rewritten. The only change required is a new assumption: you are the I AM, and the inner Christ is your governing reality. When you assume that you now align with the truth within, the old zeal dissolves, the judgment softens, and the mind ceases to persecute its own light. The result is a present-tense shift into obedience to the inner law of love.