Alabaster Gift Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Suppose the scene occurs within your own consciousness. The alabaster box is your treasured thought, your fixed idea about God or your worth, the very thing you refuse to let go of. When the woman breaks the seal and pours it over the head of Jesus, she is not wasting; she is affirming an act of worship by pouring out the entire investment of awareness. The murmurers within correspond to your critical mind, the inner 'Why waste this?' voices that would keep your consciousness frugal and focused on the poor of the world outside. Neville's reading sees Jesus as the I AM, the awareness you are, and the ointment as the intensity of feeling poured into that awareness. By consenting to such lavish devotion, you liberate the mind from judgment and allow the law of consciousness to operate: what you invest in the one Power, your inner I AM, returns as experience. So the true meaning is not a tax on generosity but a demonstration that devotion in imagination moves the entire inner economy toward abundance.