Arise and Return Home

Neville's Inner Vision

In the inner theater, the paralytic on the mat represents a fixed state of consciousness—limitation, fear, the belief 'I am not yet healed.' When Jesus speaks, Arise, take up thy bed, and go into thine house, the command is not a demand on the body but a declaration of your true nature. Arise is the inner shift from identification with the problem to identification with the I AM that you are. Take up thy bed is the decision to acknowledge the old limitation without surrendering to it as final, while going thy way into thine house signals carrying the realized state into your daily space. Immediate action follows the assumed truth; the man rises and walks in sight of all, and the people glorify God because they see the manifestation of consciousness. The miracle, then, is the conversion of belief into living experience: you awaken to the inner king and watch the outer world reflect your changed state. Faith here is trust in the I AM, not in outcomes; the outcome is the natural fruit of the inner assumption.