Memorial of Inner Worship

Neville's Inner Vision

In the inner theater of your mind, the woman is the devoted faculty of your consciousness pouring oil upon the body of your awareness. The oil is not a ritual fragment but a consecration of your entire being to an ideal you affirm. The burial signifies releasing the old, limited self from the soil of contention until a new state can arise within you. When Jesus declares that wherever the gospel is preached this deed will be told as a memorial, he invites you to recognize that this inner act becomes a fixed memory—the governing principle of your inner gospel. The gospel is the realization that you are the source of your experience, and the memorial is the steadfast belief that this devotion is already accomplished in your heart. Each time you revisit this memory, you reinforce a state of consciousness that outlives circumstance. Now, practice: assume you are the one pouring the oil; feel yourself burying the former self and rising into the new state you desire, letting this act govern your life as a remembered truth.