Birth Of Self: Inner Origin

Neville's Inner Vision

To the mind that speaks, 'What begettest thou?' Isaiah 45:10 exposes the old state that looks to father and mother as the source. In Neville's terms, the father and the mother symbolize inner states of consciousness—habits, beliefs, and loyalties—that claim to have produced you apart from your I AM. The true birth occurs now, in the present thought and imagination you consent to accept. If you hear the shout of that question, you are not being condemned; you are being shown you still identify with a separated self. The answer is not to argue about origins but to return to the one source, the I AM within you. Imagination is not a trick; it is the instrument by which you birth yourself. When you assume the state of being one with God, when you feel the reality that you are already formed in divine life, your external world conforms to that inner weft. The 'woe' becomes an invitation to discard old tales of birth and to live from an awakened consciousness where you are the creator of your life.