Homecoming of the Inner Beloved

Neville's Inner Vision

Your soul tells a short tale of leaving the crowd and returning to the one you love—your own divine awareness. The Beloved is not a person apart but the living I AM you, the state of consciousness you choose to inhabit. When she says she held him and would not let him go, she is describing the decision to remain in alignment with that state, to cling to the sensation of being fully inhabited by love until it becomes the very atmosphere of her house. Bringing him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me, points to entering the womb of imagination—the root of your identity where all creation begins. The warning to the daughters of Jerusalem to not wake love until it pleases reminds you that consciousness unfolds in its own timing; you cannot rush a genuine shift in state. Thus, the practice is to imagine you hold the Beloved, dwell in the feeling of that union, and let the outer world reflect this new inner imperative.