All-Night Mountain Prayer

Neville's Inner Vision

On the mountain of your own consciousness, the long night of prayer is not a clock but the discipline of sustained attention. In Neville's truth, God is not out there but within you—the I AM that you are, waking to itself through imagined scenes. Jesus withdraws to pray and returns with a decision: the calling forth of twelve—your inner faculties that will bear witness to your vocation. The all-night vigil is the practice of making a single state of consciousness dominant until the entire being yields to its manifesting power. The disciples are not separate men, but aspects of you that must be named, aligned, and given direction by your inward vision. In this sense, the hour of dawn marks the moment when your inner decree becomes apparent as outward action. The Kingdom of God is the ruling presence within, established when you stand in the assurance that your imagined state is already real. The mountain is your elevated vantage point from which you view your life as a field of demonstrations, and the twelve are the channels through which power, wisdom, and love go forth.