Inner Passover Pilgrimage

Neville's Inner Vision

Luke 2:41-42 shows an outer story of a family devoted to a yearly feast; Neville would say this is a symbol of inward discipline. The parents represent the I AM, steady awareness that takes the mind on an annual journey into its own temple. The child at twelve stands for a state of readiness within consciousness, a moving toward inner Jerusalem. The phrase after the custom of the feast signals the habit of aligning attention with inner law, not merely ritual. When you hear that they went every year, hear that your own attention returns to the inner city of awareness each time you choose to worship. True worship is not external ceremony but obedience to the inner prompting of consciousness, faith that when you travel inward you are already arrived. The appearance of Jesus at twelve is the moment inner mind matures to seek the temple within, not away from home. By holding this inner movement in imagination, you cast a vision that your daily life is a pilgrimage to the seat of I AM.