Perception of Persecution Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Persecution is not an attack from without, but a confession of your own misidentified self. When you hear Jesus speak of being cast out of the synagogues, hear it as the old self being exiled from the temple of your present awareness. The time cometh when the death of the 'you' you thought you were feels imminent, and those who 'kill you' are the stubborn beliefs that you still mistake for reality, thinking they serve a higher god because they act from fear. They do not know the Father, nor me, because they do not know the Source of their own consciousness, the I AM within. See that the Father and the Son are one in you—awareness and its creative image. As you fix your attention on the I AM and feel the son's life streaming through you, the external threat dissolves, for you now live from inner knowing, not outer proof. The world becomes a mirror of your inner state, and your trials become opportunities to reaffirm your divine identity.