Inner Mansions of John 14:2-3

Neville's Inner Vision

In this text the 'house' and 'rooms' are inner states of consciousness, not geographic locations. The Father represents your I AM—the perpetual awareness within you—while the many mansions denote the array of conditions you may consciously inhabit through imagination. When He says, 'I go to prepare a place for you,' I hear the intentional act of revision: you, as the aware self, craft an inner scene filled with the feeling and detail of your desired atmosphere until it becomes your lived environment. The 'going' is the forward movement of consciousness toward a state you desire; the 'return' is the moment you recognize you are already in that state because you prepared it by imagining it into being. And the promise that 'where I am, there ye may be also' assures that a steady inner stance makes you inseparable from the divine Presence, no matter where you are. Thus the mansion is not a distant location but a living, present reality created by your consistent assumption and imagination.