Inner Gate, Outer Fate

Neville's Inner Vision

Your inner state is the gate. The 'inhabitant' is your present awareness, waiting for good as a future event. Yet what descends is not fate divorced from you, but the testimony of your belief entering your attention. In Neville's view, the LORD is the I AM you identify with; when you dwell in a lack-focused waiting, evil descends as the result of that consciousness, appearing in your outer world as conditions at the gate of your attention. The remedy is to reverse the assumption: assume that the good you seek is already realized by your I AM, not coming from an outside source. See the gate not as a threshold awaiting difficulty, but as a chosen point of observation where you sustain the awareness of oneness with the fullness you desire. By aligning your feeling tone with the end you seek and revising the story you tell about the gate, you shift the movement from external doom to inner creation. The Lord is not a punitive taskmaster but the living you, and through imaginative revision you invite the good you affirm into your present.