Wholeness at Lydda

Neville's Inner Vision

On the level Neville teaches, the miracle at Lydda is not an event happening to a man outside you, but a movement within the states of your own consciousness. Aeneas, who had kept his bed eight years, represents a fixed belief in limitation—an identity you have allowed to define your body and time. Peter's word, 'Jesus Christ maketh thee whole,' is the clear authorization of a new state of consciousness, the I AM claiming wholeness for the whole being. When he says, 'arise, and make thy bed,' notice the inner directive: abandon the habit of keeping the old conditions, end the old script, and stand in a renewed sense of self. The act of arising is inner movement, not a physical act alone; the immediate rise demonstrates that the reality you accept in awareness manifests in form. The saints at Lydda are your own awakened dispositions—faith, trust, and grace—responding to the posture of awareness. The healing is therefore the shift from a belief in illness to the certainty of being complete in God.