Inner Freedom of the Children

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the I AM eye, 'strangers' are not people but thoughts that imprison you in lack, duty, or fear. When Jesus says, 'Then are the children free,' He names you as a child of the Father—the state of awareness that is untouched by appearances. The law is not binding to one who dwells in that consciousness, for the child in you lives in the house of your own being, where authority and obligation are merely imagined. To interpret this is to realize freedom is not a reward but a condition of awareness. If you imagine yourself as that child, you reinstate your rightful authority in the Kingdom. The moment you assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled—the sense that you are now free, justified, and at home within your Father—you alter the outer scene to match the inner decree. The 'strangers' dissolve as you acknowledge the child-self that cannot be coerced by appearances. Thus, liberty comes not by changing the world, but by changing your inner identification.