Inner Embrace of the Beloved

Neville's Inner Vision

Read as a psychic drama, the verse reveals that the true lover is the I AM that you are aware of. Stay me with flagons becomes the discipline of keeping your mind nourished by signs of abundance in imagination; comfort me with apples is the sweetness you grant yourself by tasting the fruit of inner conviction. I am sick of love is the fever of longing that drives you to the one Power you truly know—the awareness that you are, and always have been, complete in the beloved. The left hand under my head is your stillness in consciousness, the quiet support that lets you rest your mind in the idea that you are cared for. The right hand doth embrace me is the active principle of imagination, the dynamic energy that enfolds and binds the dream to you. When you assume this inner posture, you are not seeking God; you are acknowledging that you are already the I AM, and the world simply reflects that heightened state back to you. The moment you feel the embrace, you awaken to permanent presence.