Inner Bethlehem Road of Memory

Neville's Inner Vision

In this verse, Rachel represents a state of consciousness in you—the tender memory of love and desire that seems to die on the path of your life. The road from Padan to Canaan is the present field of awareness you travel, and the phrase Rachel died by me signals the old self, clinging to lack, surrendering to a new inner movement. The burial on the way is not an end but a transformation: Bethlehem is the inner house of bread, the place where nourishment, birth, and the realized idea begin to take form. When you sense that there is only a little way yet to the next state, you are invited to shift your consciousness swiftly, laying the old memory to rest so the new life can emerge on the same road. Remember that God—the I AM—is the awareness that witnesses and sustains this passage; imagination is the instrument by which you revise and make real the transition. Practically, revise by assuming the presence of the desired state here, now, and feel it as real nourishment entering your being.