Inner Covenant Dream

Neville's Inner Vision

Observe the text speaks of barrenness not as a fact of geography but as a state of consciousness. Sarai’s lack is a mental condition, a voice within that says, There is no seed of future in me. The Egyptian handmaid Hagar is not a person to be posited in space but an antique strategy of the mind—an outward plan born from inner deferral. In the Neville lens, the I AM—your essential awareness—remains untouched by circumstance. When you identify yourself with the dream of fulfillment, you produce Hagar’s appearance as a substitute for the promised offspring. The true covenant is not between persons but between your present belief and your future image. To shift the scene, you must turn from the sense of lack to the sense of fullness already within you; imagine the child, feel the joy, and dwell in the feeling of that realized future here and now. If you insist on outward arrangements alone, you will always finance your lack with more lack.