Inner Baptism, New Life

Neville's Inner Vision

Observe that the text asks: Know ye not that we are baptized into Jesus Christ; we are baptized into his death. This is not history but a parable of your inner life. Your old man dies in your imagination the moment you accept that you are identified with the death of Christ. You are buried with him by baptism into death—your limiting beliefs, your fears, your sense of lack—are laid beneath the soil of awareness. And as Christ was raised by the glory of the Father, so you too are raised in consciousness to a new life. The resurrection is not an event outside you, but a shift in what you accept as your present state. Walk in newness of life by living from the sensation that you are already the new self, in league with the eternal I AM. Practice: treat your inner state as the sole reality you inhabit; when doubt arises, revise it by affirming your new state and feeling it as real.