Inner Measure of the Fathers

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, the 'fathers' are not outside of you but within—states of your own consciousness. To call yourself the child of those who killed the prophets is to admit a habit of mind that silences truth when it appears. The command 'Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers' is not judgment to punish you but a mirror: you are invited to complete the pattern you have begun in your own thinking. The prophets are the higher ideas seeking birth in your awareness; when you resist, you prolong the old story. Now revise from the depth of your I AM. See yourself as the living heir of wisdom, the consciousness that can give birth to prophecy in this moment. As you affirm that the truth you know is true in this very now, you finish the lineage of doubt and guilt and release the claim of the past. You are not condemned; you are called to awaken, to be the decision by which the pattern turns and justice is written in your experience. In the light of the I AM, every act becomes a completion of what the fathers began.