The Ever-Living Inner Priest

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the quiet of your own consciousness, these lines reveal a truth: the many priests you have known are only your changing states of awareness, each born and dying in the theater of your thoughts. Yet the Christ within—your unchanging I AM—endures beyond time, a fixed priesthood that never falters. He lives forever, therefore interceding for you with a constancy no mortal hand can claim. When you perceive Him, you perceive your real relationship to God: not by deeds of many efforts, but by the single, steady act of applying your awareness to the Father. The word saved to the uttermost points to a complete restoration of your whole being—the mind, the heart, the body—through the uninterrupted companionship of your inner priest. As you dwell in the I AM and feel the presence of the intercessor within, you are not waiting for salvation from without; you are becoming it, in the immediacy of the present moment.