The Inner Cup and Baptism

Neville's Inner Vision

Now, reader, consider that the cup and baptism are not external events but inner rites of your own consciousness. When Jesus says you know not what you ask, he reveals that they are seeking a transformation of state, not a request for distant history. The cup you are asked to drink is the ongoing pressure of trials pressing upon awareness; the baptism is the immersion in a qualitative shift of your inner being. To say 'we are able' is to acknowledge the I AM presence within, the witnessing awareness that can endure and transmute any imagined experience. If you imagine yourself already in the same state as the Master, you will see the world bend to your mental equivalent. The willingness to drink the cup is the commitment to persist in a mental act until the feeling tone of the assertion becomes your habitual reality. The scene is not history but the living law in action: consciousness creates conditions; imagination fashions form; faith is the steady attention to the desired state. Your present circumstances are signaling your readiness to assume a new inner posture.