The Inner Mustard Seed

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Luke’s parable lies a map of the inner state. The kingdom is not a distant place but a condition of awareness you cultivate. The mustard seed stands for a single assumption planted in the garden of your mind; when you cast it in with faith, it begins to grow. The growth is not measured by outward signs but by an inward change of how you feel and what you take to be real. The birds that lodge in the branches are the passing thoughts, the winds of circumstance, that would roost on your security; yet the tree stands because your sense of I AM has risen and provides shelter. Keep tending the seed with imaginal acts and the felt sense of the wish fulfilled, and the tree becomes a realm in which the kingdom dwells. So the whole scene declares: consciousness creates form; awaken to the state you desire, and the world will bow to the image you persist in feeling real.