Dawning of the Inner Birth

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the lament is not about dates, but about the self that identified with a born, limited state. In Neville’s language, the day you think you were born is the moment you believed you were separate from the I AM. The line invites you to revise the memory of birth by awareness that you are always now, always the I AM imagining. The 'night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived' points to an old story you have believed about yourself—proof that you are the result of a birth, rather than the result of a living consciousness that births itself into form by its own imagining. The passage becomes a key: you can let that story perish by assuming a new expression of I AM, the state in which you possess what you desire. Every suffering moment can be treated as a summons to hold the feeling of the desired state as if it already existed, not as something to be gained. When you persist in that inner assumption, the external conditions begin to rearrange to align with the new inner weather.