Inner Purity: Water of Awareness

Neville's Inner Vision

To the man who prays with his imagination, the law is not a map of places but a map of states. Dead carcases symbolize thoughts and habits that have ceased to nourish life; when they touch the vessel of your mind—the forms you wear, the words you utter, the ways you act—the state of purity shifts to unclean within consciousness until you wash it with the living water of awareness. The vessels of wood, raiment, skin, or sack are your outward forms, and the rule says: if old, dead states cling, you are to break the earthen container that would hold them, and return to the clean soil of now. A fountain or pit with plenty of water stands for the constant flow of true knowing; as long as you keep connected to the inner fountain, contamination cannot lodge. Seed is your intended future; if death touches seed, the future is compromised unless water—refreshing consciousness—keeps it pure. The practical teaching: keep your mind in a continuous flow of awareness, and be willing to discard worn-out beliefs that no longer serve life. When you revise in imagination, you restore cleanliness in the moment.