Inner Birth of Water and Spirit

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the Neville lens, the verse announces a conversion of the self, not a bodily rebirth. Water stands for the cleansing stream of awareness washing away fear, doubt, and the old identify-ment that clings to separation; Spirit signifies the living I AM that awakens within you, the intelligent energy by which you are aware. The kingdom of God is not a distant realm to be awaited but the state of consciousness you enter whenever you regard yourself as already complete. Your job is not to strive for it but to revise your sense of self until the inner fact becomes vivid: you are born of water and Spirit here and now. This requires a stable assumption and a feeling of reality—the water you imagine flowing through you; the Spirit you feel as the immediate presence of I AM guiding, sustaining, and inspiring every thought. Through such imaginative revision, you shift from fear-based thinking to trust and holiness, and the apparent separation dissolves as you inhabit the inner kingdom as your true circle of life.