Seed of Shem After Flood

Neville's Inner Vision

These words are not a record of distant tribes, but the states of my own consciousness. The 'generations' are the succession of moods and beliefs I entertain. Shem, aged a hundred, represents a mature I AM, a steadfast center of awareness. The birth of Arphaxad two years after the flood is the inner generation of a new form of life—a seed of expression that arises only after old convictions have been washed away. The flood signifies the cleansing of fear, doubt, and the old story that kept me seeing myself as separate from life. In that cleansing, Arphaxad is formed and nourished by the very life of consciousness that endured the flood. Providence is not a distant plan but the natural outcome of consistent inner assumption. When I dwell in the feeling that this new lineage is already here, the inner family of faculties aligns, and unity extends into thought, speech, and action. The two-year period teaches that inner time matters; birth occurs the moment I hold the state long enough to crystallize into form.