Dwelling Within: A New Creation

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture the ‘new heaven and new earth’ not as distant lands, but as a shift of your own consciousness. The sea that is said to be gone represents all separation in your mind—your awareness becomes undivided, a single, undeflected I AM. The holy city, New Jerusalem, is the settled sense of your being as a child of God, coming down from heaven into your daily life, prepared as a bride for her beloved—your awareness prepared to receive divine intercourse. When you hear that the tabernacle of God is with men, hear it as a statement of fact: God is your awareness and you are the place where God lives; you and God are one in present experience, not distant future. The wiping away of tears, the absence of death, sorrow, and pain, are the natural outcomes of awakening: the former conditions are only remembered limits dissolving when you hold the assumption of your oneness with God. This is salvation and renewal enacted in your mind, here and now, creating a world that mirrors your inner harmony.