Inner Covenant After Death Of Self

Neville's Inner Vision

Only within the inner life does any covenant become binding. The 'testament' is your declared state; the 'testator' is the you that presently identifies with a lack or limitation. The old self must die in your imagination for the new contract to assume authority; not by struggle, but by the quiet act of consenting to the new state as if it already is. When you keep clinging to the old identity, the decree remains inert and your life appears to lag behind. When you dare to accept the new state as real now, the inner law makes the change as if it were written into the soul itself, and your outer world will bend to your inner conviction. The loyalty to the new covenant is inner faithfulness: you persist in the assumption until the feeling that it is done floods your heart. The I AM within you is the executor; let it dissolve the old 'will' and crown the new decree. In that moment you discover that the will you sought was always within, waiting for the old self to die so the testament could live.