Inner Union of Christ and Church

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the 'one flesh' as a turning of your entire consciousness toward a single center. In Neville’s voice, the husband and wife are two states of awareness that must be aligned until they present themselves as a single I AM in daily life. The 'great mystery' is the revelation that Christ and the church dwell as one within the mind that holds the feeling of fullness. To leave father and mother is to release old identifications so you may join with your partner in a higher sense of self. The injunction to love as yourself and to reverence your partner becomes a practical discipline: treat your beloved as the living image of your own true self, until such love becomes your habitual mood. As you abide in that oneness, your outer life reflects the inner unity, resistance dissolves, and you experience the reality of covenant life here and now.