Hymn of Inner Departure

Neville's Inner Vision

Let us see the hymn as the mind’s declaration of I AM. The outward syllables are but a symbol for an inner agreement: God’s presence is real now, and you are the I AM in action. When Jesus and the disciples sing and then go out to the Mount of Olives, you are asked to reinterpret 'going out' as a turning of attention from facts to states. The departure is not physical distance; it is a shift of consciousness from the doubt-dream to the assurance of God within. The Mount of Olives becomes an inner hill of perspective, where the elevated mind stands in the radiance of Presence. Your imagination, properly felt, makes that presence tangible here and now. The hymn is the tool by which you revise your inner weather: fear becomes trust; lack becomes fulfillment; separation dissolves into union with the I AM. Practice requires you to rehearse the hymn until the awareness of God suffuses every moment.