Inner Repentance Unveiled

Neville's Inner Vision

Repentance, in the Neville reading, is not punishment but a turning of consciousness. The verse says 'they went out,' which is the inner motion of imagination moving beyond a fixed self-image. 'Preached that men should repent' is a declaration of possibility, a proclamation that one can revise the governing assumptions of life. In this inner drama, the apostles are not external messengers but faculties of awareness—the perceiving mind, the feeling body, the creative imagination—testifying to the truth that you are not bound by a former story. To repent is to return to the I AM within, to align your thoughts with the divine endowments you already possess. When you imagine yourself in a higher state, you are preaching to your own consciousness to change its dominant belief. The outward action of preaching becomes the inward act of revision, as you replace limitation with the immediacy of your true nature. The call to repent is thus a summons to awaken from a dream of separation and to dwell in the certainty of your oneness with the I AM. Your world will shift as your inner picture shifts.