Inner Purity of the Lamb's Firstfruits

Neville's Inner Vision

Take Revelation 14:4 as a description of your inner state, not a crowd of external people. The 'virgins' are those who keep their consciousness undefiled by the distractions of the senses; to be virgin is to hold a receptive, pure attitude toward life. The defilement spoken of is attachment—desire, fear, or conformity—that deflects your attention from the Lamb within. I do not defile my mind; I choose a continuous following of the Lamb, which is the inner Christ guiding every present action. Wherever the Lamb goes, I go, because my life is yoked to that divine principle of integrity and truth. To be redeemed from among men is to realize I am already redeemed in my inner state; I am the firstfruits unto God and the Lamb, the earliest harvest of consciousness consecrated to the divine. This is a present tense revelation: my inner state yields my outer experience; purity becomes substance as I inhabit the awareness that I am that harvest. Thus, the inner purity is not a ritual but a realized identity, and the world I inhabit mirrors that inward harvest.