Inner Kingdom Encounter

Neville's Inner Vision

All three scenes are states of consciousness, not events in time but flavors of your inner life. The multitude that fills the room and leaves no room for bread is your busy mind, starving for nourishment because you have forgotten the I AM within you. The friends who rush out to lay hands on him symbolize the old self clinging to its outward appearances and fearing the radical freedom of your true nature. The scribes from Jerusalem—their accusation that Beelzebub empowers him—are the inner voices that project blame onto your awakening, insisting that power comes from elsewhere. Yet the action persists: the power is not in the crowd, nor in the accusers, but in the consciousness you are. The Christ within—the I AM—does not yield to labels; the Kingdom of God is within, and it is already operative beneath every verdict. So, revise your sense of self until you feel that you are the one who provides the nourishment, the observer who commands the scene, and the practitioner of divine power within you.