The Inner Countenance of Faith

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the scene not as a history of meals, but as a mirror of consciousness. The ten-day test is the inner span in which your I AM, your awareness, selects a diet for the soul—not meat, but faithfulness, integrity, and alignment with divine order. The fair, plump countenances are not physical judgment, but the visible result of a state held long enough in imagination and feeling. Those who eat the king's meat have chosen a worldly nourishment that dulls perception; those who abstain maintain a stream of inner vitality, nourished by obedience to a higher law. In Neville’s terms, your outer circumstances are the echo of your inner state. If you persist in seeing yourself as already healthy, loved, and governed by wisdom, your body and life respond accordingly. The 'providence' here is the moment-by-moment revision of your self-image, the continuous assertion that you are the I AM and that your imagination is the cause of all effects.