Bethel Gate Of Consciousness

Neville's Inner Vision

Your inner 'house of Joseph' is the I AM that goes up to Bethel—the inner house where the Lord is. When you descry Bethel, you direct awareness to the doorway within. The man who comes forth and shows the entrance is your imagination, revealing the pathway by which belief enters consciousness. The mercy you extend to him and his family is your willingness to entertain the appearance without letting it dominate you; it is mercy that sustains faith in the doorway. Yet the city is struck by the edge of the sword—the word of truth and decisive imagination that cuts away old patterns. The spared man and his family become Luz’s seed, carried into the land, where a new city is built in your mind and named Luz—proof that a new inner order has been established in your present experience. The name Luz is the remembered designation of your inner settlement, a token that your reality is formed by inner states resolved into a safe harbor. Practice: assume you already stand before the doorway of Bethel in your consciousness, and feel that you pass through now, knowing the Lord is with you.