Inner Crossing Toward Rest

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider this text as a parable for your own consciousness. The LORD is the I AM that dwells within you, and the land to be possessed is the life you intend to create in your world. To pass over armed before your brethren means you step forth with the full instrument of your will—your faith, your imagination, your decisive 'I AM'—into the conditions you seek to transform. The phrase 'before your brethren' suggests the rest of your being, the other states of consciousness, awaiting their turn in the drama of your life. The wives, little ones, and cattle are not people to battle; they are the attachments, habits, and feelings that comfortably reside within your present state. They shall abide in the cities I have given you until the LORD has given rest unto your brethren—until your entire consciousness rests in the certainty of the new possession. When that rest comes, you return each man unto his possession—your new state integrates with the old, becoming ordinary life in which the impossible is now possible. Your ground has shifted; you have crossed Jordan in spirit, and your life follows.