Inward Presence Beyond Perception

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, the 'he' who passes by is not a person distant in space but your own present state of consciousness. When you say, 'I see him not,' you are naming a habit of identification with outer sight, a belief that reality is outside you and beyond your I AM. The moment you accept that God is always the I AM within you, the passerby becomes not absence but the call to turn inward. In Neville's terms, imagination creates reality; therefore, by assuming the feeling of divine presence, you revise the inner atmosphere and your world conforms to it. The unseen God is the persistent awareness that underlies every sensation; you perceive Him not when you resist Him with doubt, but when you dwell in the quiet conviction 'I am that I AM' here and now. Let the passage be a reminder: God travels through your life, yet your interior state must invite Him. Do not seek Him with the senses; invite Him with the certainty of your own consciousness, and the sense of absence dissolves into intimate nearness.