Beholding The Inner Face

Neville's Inner Vision

Arise, O LORD becomes "Arise, I AM" within your own consciousness. The call to disappoint him and cast him down is the turning away from the claim of fear, the old dream that power resides outside you. "Deliver my soul from the wicked" becomes deliverance from the wicked thought-form that you are separate from God, the illusion that life is governed by hostile hands. The line about "thy sword" is the sword of discernment that cuts through belief and reveals reality. "From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world" reveals that the world’s pressures are manifestations in the mind, not distant conquerors; "which have their portion in this life" are the appetites that cling to material security. "They are full of children" points to the prolific birth of beliefs that reproduce appearances. Yet you declare, "As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness." The I AM you awaken into is the very image of God within; the new creation is your living awareness, not a future event but the present sight of selfhood, born anew as you inhabit your divine likeness.