Opening the Inner Door

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the verse, the woman’s removal of coat and washing of feet signal a stripping of protective identities and an inner readiness for communion. The beloved’s hand at the door awakens a stirring within, not as a memory of longing but as a present movement of consciousness. When she rises to open, her hands are anointed with myrrh—symbol of pure feeling and receptive perfume—upon the lock, showing that perception itself is being prepared to receive. In Neville's terms, this is your inner scene where imagination has prepared the body's reflexes and emotional posture for the closed door to become a door of opportunity. The I AM within is moving the door from resistance to invitation; the longing is not separate from your conscious awareness but the very vibration you now assume. To experience the beloved’s presence, you must first feel in the moment that you have already washed away the old separations, and that the door of your awareness is open to receive the contact that harmonizes all conflict. The fragrance on the handles is the sensation of right feeling—the end realized within as your present state.