Persecuted to Inner Kingdom

Neville's Inner Vision

Perched at the edge of ordinary sight, I hear the blessing not as a distant reward but as a present alignment. When I stand in righteousness—not the old moral brag but the quiet I AM that animates my being—persecution may arise from the remnants of fear clinging to the self. Yet the more I insist that only the I AM is real here, the more the inner kingdom becomes a palpable fact. The kingdom of heaven is not a place to reach but a state of consciousness I realize by the discipline of imagination. Those who are persecuted are simply those who refuse to renounce their inner law; their resistance becomes a signal that I am crossing from an old self-concept into truth. So I choose to dwell in the certainty that the kingdom is mine right now, regardless of appearances, and I trust the law of assumption to translate that inner state into outer experience. By imagination I persist in that awareness until it feels inevitable.