Anointing After the Sabbath

Neville's Inner Vision

These are not external characters, but states of consciousness. The Sabbath is the rest of the old story; the moment they move to buy spices is the decision to obligate their inner atmosphere to honor the Christ within. The spices are fragrant thoughts and feelings—assurances, gratitude, expectation—that you choose to clothe your awareness with. When they go to anoint him, that is your mind turning toward the truth that the I AM is alive now. The act is not about a body two thousand years ago; it is your intention to wake up to your own divinity. As you adopt the feeling of being already present with the Christ, you are performing the inner rite; you revise the scene by assuming the state you want to see realized. The tomb of limitation is the old self you leave behind in imagination, and the anointing is the declaration that the new life is present in this moment. Trust that the move of your consciousness, not an external event, creates the reality you call life.