Temple by Day, Olives by Night

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider Luke’s day and night as a single cycle of consciousness. The day-teaching in the temple is your waking state of I AM awareness—attention fixed, words projected, reality rehearsed. The night on the Mount of Olives is the inner retreat where images are revised and the subconscious takes up your new identification. The crowds that come at dawn are not others but your own faculties awakening to hear the truth you have imagined about yourself. In Neville fashion, there is no separation between outer events and inner states: imagination creates the seen world when you dwell in the feeling of the wish fulfilled. The temple and the mount are two facets of one awareness, forever present as you, here and now. If you want a different day, revise in your mind while you are quiet, assume the state of the thing desired, and let the feeling it is real fill you until it replaces fear or doubt. Persist in this inner listening, and the morning will greet you with the sound of your own healed consciousness.