Inner Lineage of Shem

Neville's Inner Vision

To the mindful student, these lines are not genealogies but maps of your own states of consciousness. Shem’s longevity after begetting Arphaxad mirrors the endurance of a conviction once born in imagination. The flood signifies a breaking free from old assumptions, clearing the mind so that a fresh life—Arphaxad—can emerge as a new quality of being. Time, in this light, is not measured in centuries but in the movements of awareness; the ages recorded simply indicate how long a new state has been allowed to dwell. When you read that Arphaxad lived and begat for hundreds of years, hear that as the stretch of your inner life when you persist in the sense of having already created the outcome. You are the parent and the world is the offspring of your assumed I AM presence. The covenant loyalty is fidelity to the assumed reality, not to outer events. Providence is the inner guidance that keeps your vision alive until it becomes momentary fact.