Lifted Serpent Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, the scene you read is not history to be argued, but a state of consciousness to be entered. The bronze serpent on the wilderness pole is the symbol of a condition you have imagined as lack, fear, and separation. When Moses lifts it up, the people are invited to behold from a higher point—an inner shift in awareness. In the same manner, the Son of Man must be lifted up in your consciousness; not outside of you, but as the awareness you choose to inhabit. To believe, in this sense, is to consent to the reality of the lifted state within. When you identify with the one who is already raised—the self that understands unity rather than deficiency—the mind's fear becomes memory, and life flows as an ever-present, eternal light. This life is not a future event, but a quality of consciousness that endures amid changing appearances. Salvation and atonement arrive as you realize you are the I AM, the yoke-free witness who cannot perish but awakens to fuller expression. The future you hope for is the present realized, if you dwell there long enough in imagination.