Absorb Reproach, Embrace Selfless Love

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville’s register this verse becomes a map of consciousness. The Christ who pleased not himself points to a state of awareness that does not center its own preferences but lives as the I AM, letting the reproaches of others fall on the self that identifies with the higher nature. When you imagine yourself as the inner Godhead, you do not deny pain; you transmute it by refusing to make it personal. The reproaches are not cast upon a separate ego but upon your access to the divine within; as you dwell there, you absorb them, let their charge run through the current of I AM, and you discover that forgiveness, compassion, and strength arise as a natural result. This is humility as alignment, not self-effacement. You act as the receiver of all judgment so the field of thoughts can rearrange itself toward love. Your inner atmosphere shifts, and what was once charged becomes quiet, radiant, and able to serve the needs of the whole.