The Inner Command to Love

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, this is not a social ritual but a law of consciousness. 'This is my commandment' speaks to a state you must inhabit, not a rule you perform. If you know yourself as the I AM, love becomes the natural atmosphere of your mind; to love as Jesus loved you is to accept unity, to identify with the one life that throbs in all beings. When you imagine another as separate, you feel resistance; when you align with the truth that 'no man has life of his own' but shares the I AM, the other becomes your mirror. The 'lay down his life for his friends' is the dying away of the old self that fears loss and separation. In that surrender, your inner light expands, and action flows from a state of harmony. The command becomes a certainty: you are already at one with your neighbor in consciousness; let your outward acts spring from that inner union, and obedience becomes freedom, not duty.