Saul’s Damascus Awakening

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the verses, the nourishment is not merely physical; it is the turning point of inner substantiation. Saul, who hunted believers, sits with the disciples in Damascus as a man who has entered a new inner state. In Neville's terms, the I AM has shifted his sense of self from persecutor to witness. The strength that follows is not earned from without but claimed as a conviction in imagination—the belief that Christ is the Son of God becomes a fact impressed upon his very sense of 'I.' The astonishment of others reveals the old state clinging to certainty; yet Saul regains his inner authority and confounds the 'Jews' by proving with demonstration that the Christ within is the very Christ outside. This is redemption as awakening: turning from fear to trust, from opposition to witness, by the act of feeling that the inner narrative is true. The Damascus scene, then, is an inner conversion, a demonstrative living of the truth that imagination creates reality.