Touched By The Inner God

Neville's Inner Vision

Observe that the ‘pity’ spoken of here is not sympathy from a crowd, but the quiet acknowledgment of the I AM within. When the hand of God touches me, it is awareness, not punishment, awakening to a state I already am. The friends who persecute are the gossiping thoughts of old self-concepts—voices that demand proof and measure flesh. To think they are 'Gods' who judge is to mistake the outer scene for the inner state. In truth, God is the I AM, and the only reality is the present consciousness in which I feel my life. Thus the cry, 'Why do ye persecute me as God?' dissolves as I realize I am not a body being evaluated, but the awareness that experiences through a body. The flesh is but a sign, not a prison; the demand for it to satisfy others is the old habit of fear. By conscious assumption I can revise that situation, embracing mercy as an inner condition and letting perception reflect that mercy outward.