Inner Resurrection Practice

Neville's Inner Vision

Here, the 'body' is not a corpse but the worn-out pattern of consciousness. Peter's prayer is the disciplined turning of attention toward life within. When he says 'Tabitha, arise,' he does not command a person so much as the inner image of a formerly dead quality—compassion, usefulness, or desire to serve—back to living activity. The onlookers are the inner saints and widows, the memories and beliefs that witness a new act of life; their belief flows from the demonstration that consciousness can awaken itself. The miracle is not in the external event but in your awareness that life is always present as I AM and can be revived by a single, steadfast assumption. In this reading, Tabitha's return is the awakening of a dormant virtue, a resurrection of the inner self, accomplished by the 'kneeling' of attention and the 'arising' of imagination. As you hold the awareness that you are the mind that calls forth life, you begin to see that every appearance of death in you is simply needing a revision of the inner image. Your belief activates the invisible forces that make form respond.