Lazarus Within Awakening

Neville's Inner Vision

All of Scripture is an invitation to awareness. In this scene, the stone is the stopper of belief, and Jesus’ eyes lifted toward the Father signal a turning of attention from outward appearance to the I AM within. Gratitude—“Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me”—is not begging but recognition that the state you desire is already present in consciousness. The declaration that the Father hears him always reinforces the law: you are heard by your own inner nature as you assume it. When he commands, “Lazarus, come forth,” that cry is your inner-state arising from the tomb of identifications—habit, doubt, fear—bound in graveclothes. The blanket over his face is the concealment of perception; “Loose him, and let him go” is the spiritual release of your new state into the outer world of action. The purpose, even the apparent audience of bystanders, is to awaken belief that you are one with the source. The power is not in the external act, but in the inner assumption that what you desire is already yours.