From Outcast to Worship

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the inner drama is not about outward healing alone, but the conversion of consciousness. The man’s exile from the religious crowd represents the state of consciousness that has been judged, separated from the whole, until a moment of recognition arises. Jesus finds him within the mind and asks, Dost thou believe on the Son of God? The Son of God is not a distant figure but the living I AM within—awareness speaking to itself. The man’s question, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him? becomes a turning point: belief is not earned by works but recognized as revelation. When Jesus says, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee, the outer voice becomes the inner voice, and the declared self-identification—Lord, I believe—worships. In Neville’s terms, the man has moved from sense of separation to the certainty of unity with the Father’s presence. The former outcast status dissolves as belief is realized as the I AM’s self-witness. The drama ends in worship because worship is simply the acceptance of the One consciousness occupying the form.