Inner Readiness Of Five Virgins

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine the kingdom of heaven as a state of consciousness you carry within. The ten virgins represent moments of attention; the oil is the disciplined faith of your inner I AM, the imaginative fuel that keeps the lamp bright. The bridegroom is your higher Self, the awakening you enter when you refuse fear or delay. While they tarry, all sleep; yet only those who keep oil in reserve—who persist in imagining from a settled conviction—are ready for the call. The midnight cry signals a shift in awareness, not a clock: a moment when you move from lack to certainty and the door to your inner marriage opens. Remember, you know not the hour because you are always in the hour of inner realization. The kingdom comes as you choose to remain awake in consciousness, to guard your inner lamp with faith and imagination, and to enter the union within where God is fully awake in you.