Return to Inner Bethel

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, the verse reads as a man returning to the house of God within. Abram’s journey from the south to the place where his tent had stood at the beginning is a symbolic movement in consciousness, not a new itinerary. Bethel is the inner dwelling—the I AM presence that you awaken to when you stop chasing outer conditions. The south represents lower states of mind—fear, want, doubt—while the path to Bethel marks a rising in awareness, a decision to rest in the truth that God is within. The space between Bethel and Hai becomes the inner terrain where tests arise, where you must hold to the realization that all events are states you entertain and thereby manifest. Your faith and perseverance are not friction with reality but persistence in the imagined end—the feeling of being at home in God. When you return to the tent at the beginning, you claim the original self-image, and the world must adjust to that inner center. The journey is always inward; the outward map merely mirrors your inner journey toward a stable, conscious I AM.