Inward Conception: Spirit and Birth

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, Luke’s scene is a map of your inner state, not a history. Mary stands for your present awareness, asking, How shall this be? The angel’s answer encodes a law: the Holy Spirit will come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee. This is the inward birth of a divine idea, when your consciousness yields to a higher reality. The Holy Spirit is the living presence of God within; the Overshadowing is the Spirit saturating your mind until the holy thing is formed. That holy thing becomes the Son of God—the realized idea made manifest in form. The Son of God is not a person but the name given to that which arises from pure awareness when it is illuminated by grace. Your task is to assume the end-state now, to dwell in the feeling of the fulfilled idea and to revise your state until inward certainty births outward demonstration.