Oil For The Inner Lamp

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this parable, the lamp reveals your present awareness and the oil the sustaining power of your inner state. The wise carry oil in their jars along with their lamp—they do not abandon the consciousness that already assumes the fulfilled outcome. The foolish go out into the night with a flame but no fuel, trusting an external circumstance to sustain them. Neville teaches that the Kingdom of God is not distant but the feeling your I AM already embodies now; what you call 'oil' is sustained imagination—assumptions, persistent faith, and the calm conviction that your wish is fulfilled. When delay or testing arises, your ability to remain in the assumed state determines whether your lamp stays lit. The judgment is inward: you are answerable to your inner state, not to outer signs. So cultivate a continuous reservoir of oil by revising until the feeling is real, by choosing a vivid assumption and living from the end, and by letting daily practice prove that your inner light does not depend on external events.