Inner Foot-Washing Wisdom

Neville's Inner Vision

To Peter, the feet are not merely limbs but the path your life treads. The moment Jesus approaches with the basin, you hear your own impulse: Do I really need this cleansing? Jesus answers in the key Neville hears: What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter. This is the promise of inner awakening: you may resist the washing, yet without it you have no part with me—the symbol of participation in the divine Life. When you are washed, you are clean in spirit; yet not all are clean, meaning some thoughts still cling to betrayal, fear, or judgment; these are the last vestiges of a self you are outgrowing. The real cleansing is not a ritual; it is the recognition that you are the I AM, the living water that purifies by awareness. Your 'feet' are your steps in the world; the water dissolves the belief that you are defined by failure or limitation. In truth, you are already clean in your essential self, and the work is to allow that truth to rise from possibility into experience by steady assumption, revision, and feeling it real.