Inner Tomb, New Life

Neville's Inner Vision

Joseph’s act of placing Jesus in a rock-hewn tomb becomes a symbolic model for your inner life. The tomb is not punishment but a deliberate turning inward, a moment when attention withdraws from outward appearances and rests in the I AM. Your psyche wraps the old self in linen of habit, lays it down in a self-made tomb within the inner landscape, and rolls the stone to the door—your closing belief that life ends, your fear of change, your habitual identification with lack. In this stillness, you are not imprisoned; you are preparing the ground for a resurrection of consciousness. The stone’s sealing represents the momentary closure of old stories, while the inevitable lifting of that stone marks the awakening of light and life from within, independent of outward events. Resurrection, then, is the renewal of your sense of self as ever complete, the I AM welcoming new life into your experience through the power of imagination.