Water of Inner Baptism

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine the eunuch as a symbol of your own mind approaching a clear stream—the water represents the living consciousness now available to you. His question, "What doth hinder me to be baptized?" reveals that the only barrier is belief in limitation. Baptism, in this light, is not an outward rite alone but a shift of state accomplished by the I AM within you as you accept the truth you have imagined. The water before him is not external; it is the inner stream of awareness flowing through the self you inhabit at this moment. When you affirm, 'I am baptized into this life,' fear and doubt begin to dissolve, and outward actions align with the inward conviction. Faith and obedience are the same act—staying with the assumed state until it becomes your living consciousness. Salvation becomes a present-tense realization of your true nature, here and now, as you persist in the consciousness that God is I AM.