From Dead Name to Living Life

Neville's Inner Vision

To the student of consciousness, Sardis is not a city but a state of mind: a name that seems alive while the inner life lies dormant. The speaker, bearing the authority of the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars, is reminding you that your true power rests in awareness, not in outward labels. When your works carry a reputation for vitality but your inner sense says dead, you have separated the image you wear from the I AM that makes all form. In Neville’s language, God is the I AM—your segment of consciousness that can, by assumption, revise itself. The seven Spirits symbolize the complete faculties—imagination, faith, perception, will, memory, action, and life itself—submitted to your inner command. Your task is to cease treating your life as an already-made presentation and begin treating it as a living dream you choose to wake up within. Assume the inner state as already true: the living life overtaking the name that once appeared alive. In that act, the outer world will reflect the revived inner life.