The Hour of Darkness Within

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville's terms, the chief priests and soldiers are not merely outsiders but images of your inner states at work. The 'hour' and the 'power of darkness' signify a moment when a stubborn belief in separation asserts itself as if it could overwhelm your awareness. When you have been 'daily with' your life in the temple of your mind, nothing opposes your steady I AM presence; the coming of these outer symbols reveals an inner choice—to identify with fear or with consciousness. Jesus, the one I AM within you, does not resist darkness; he stands in the unassailable unity of all that is. The scene is a drama of your own psychology: the old self meeting the demand to change, the belief that you are threatened by a power other than God. The power of darkness has no power but what you give it by believing in separation. Your revision is to assume the I AM as your sole reality, and to feel that this hour is the moment you claim inner sovereignty. In that assumption, the inner temple becomes a sanctuary where darkness cannot rule.