Twelve Stones of Inner Trust

Neville's Inner Vision

Take the Jordan as the stream of ongoing thought, the priests' feet standing firm as the discipline of present awareness. The twelve stones are not mere rocks but twelve states of consciousness I elect to remember, twelve tribes of quality within me. When the command comes, I am told to pull these stones from the river of passing sense and carry them over into the lodging place of my night, meaning into the sanctuary of my steady I AM. Each stone represents a covenant: loyalty to a truth I refuse to forget; faithfulness to the inner word that never fails. By building this memorial I do not conjure something new; I align with what is already true in me, and the act of remembrance becomes a bridge from Jordan to the promised relation with God within. The act is not external; it is a revision of memory, a re-immersion in awareness until what I am becomes what I perceive. The memorial anchors the present with future certainty and invites me to live as the man who has crossed over.