Gate Of The Prince Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Your true self is the prince who steps through the porch of awareness into the inner gate. The gate is not a place, but a state of consciousness; the prince stands by the post of the gate with assured will, while the priests—your disciplined faculties—prepare the burnt offering of surrender to old conditions and the peace offerings of harmony with God within. When you worship at the threshold of the gate, you acknowledge that the divine presence fills even the boundary between inner and outer; then you go forth back into life, carrying the sense of God as I AM into every action. The gate remaining open until evening signifies that this realization is not a momentary ritual but a continuous posture of mind through the day. It is in that daily, present awareness that imagination creates reality: as you dwell in the feeling of your wish fulfilled, the boundary dissolves and your world reflects the inner sacrament you have celebrated. Practice is a simple revision of belief, an imaginative act that makes the inner state your outer experience.