Seeing the Father Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Philip's request to show us the Father is not about distance but about your present state of awareness. Jesus gives the key: the Father is not a far off object to be perceived but the very I AM that you are now aware of. The claim that you can see the Father dissolves the sense of separation, because to see in Neville's sense is to awaken to the fact that you are the living image through which the Father reveals Himself. When you assume the feeling of your own divinity, you are looking at the Father with the eyes of faith. The Presence of God is the steady occupancy of your mind, not an event on a distant horizon. Faith and trust are not in future attendance but in present awareness; true worship is the recognition that you are the I AM which already contains all. Therefore, practice in the moment: acknowledge the Father within you; let the familiar I am be felt as the Father looking through you and at you, and the outer becomes an expression of that inner truth.