Assumption Moves Mountains

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice that the demon and the mountain are images arising from a single inner state. When you ask, 'Why could we not cast it out?', you reveal a belief that power lies outside you. But the truth Neville teaches is that faith—even a mustard-seed of it—is the awareness that you are the I AM, the one consciousness imagining and fulfilling itself. The mountain moves not by forcing the external world, but by the inner movement of consciousness toward truth. The words 'this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting' point to a discipline: withdraw attention from the old sense-world and feed the inner conviction. Prayer is the steady communion with your divine self; fasting is releasing attachment to the old thought. If you revise the scene in your mind to align with the truth you seek, the problem dissolves. Your practice is simple: select one definite assumption about your state now, dwell there in feeling, and let the old belief yield to the new consciousness.