One Accord, Miracles Within

Neville's Inner Vision

All of Acts 8:6 speaks to a state of consciousness rather than a crowd event. The people are in a single mood of expectancy—their attention, their belief, their very sense of self are harmonized, and so they 'gave heed' to the word spoken by Philip and to the signs that followed. In Neville's language, the crowd's 'one accord' is a unified state of I AM awareness, a mind that is not fragmented by fear or doubt. When Philip speaks, his words act as a creative suggestion, and the miracles are inner movements—the shifting of possibilities from potential to perceived reality. The seeing and the hearing are inner confirmations: imagination accepts the good, and perception becomes the evidence of its truth. The miracles do not happen to people; they are the person’s inner alignment with truth, revealed as outward signs aligned with belief. Therefore the lesson is that unity of thought and steadfast trust transform the ordinary into the miraculous, because the imagination is, in truth, the instrument by which God speaks to itself within you.