Stephen's Inner Vision of Authority

Neville's Inner Vision

To the eye, the martyrdom looks like a tragedy; in Neville's terms it is a dramatized inner transformation. Stephen, filled with the Holy Ghost, does not move toward a distant miracle but presents an inner fact: the I AM now wears the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God. This is the inner kingship, the consciousness that rules the scene. The crowd’s gnashed teeth and the stones mirror the ego’s resistance when an old self yields to a higher state. In that moment the vision of heaven and the standing Christ confirms that you are not the body or the opinion of others, but the being whose awareness is God. The call to forgive, Lord lay not this sin to their charge, is your invitation to release judgment and step into the life that remains when fear is dissolved. Stephen’s dying is not extinction but waking into a higher life in God, where perception rewrites the world and love outlasts every stone.