End From Beginning Realized

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the I AM that I am, there is one movement: the end already finished in consciousness. When I read Isaiah's declaration 'Declaring the end from the beginning,' I hear that I can entertain the finished state in my mind, and that act initiates the sequence by which events unfold. The 'counsel shall stand' becomes my inner resolution: once I choose a definite end in imagination, that choice cannot be undone by outward appearances. The 'I will do all my pleasure' is my recognition that my inner intention is the creative force; my imagination is the instrument through which the plan is executed. The ravenous bird from the east and the man from a far country symbolize external conditions that yield to my inner decree when I hold the end as real. Foreknowledge becomes present-tense reality to the aware mind: what I conceive in feeling and in thought returns as experience. Therefore, I dwell in the knowing that the end is already accomplished and let my day be governed by the assumption that it is so.