Inner Birth of Joy and Mission

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the scene as not outside you but as your own states of consciousness being formed. The birth of John is the inner awakening of a great idea within you, a joyful gladness that manifests when imagination is allowed to rule. To be 'filled with the Holy Ghost' is to be flooded with the I AM presence—a consciousness greater than doubt, moving you from within toward truth. The prophecy that 'many of the children of Israel shall turn to the Lord' is the turning of your own separated thoughts back to God-sense; it is resistance yielding to wisdom, the disobedient becoming wise through a new ruling idea. As you go 'before Him in the spirit and power of Elias,' you align with the law of rhythm—the inner nudge that makes your actions precede outward events. The target is a people prepared for the Lord: a mind that has prepared itself to meet the Divine in daily life by imagining a completed end and living from that end now.