The Beloved Withdrawn Within

Neville's Inner Vision

To the I AM listening, this scene is not a drama of distance but a revelation of consciousness. The beloved is your own awareness, the I AM that abides as presence. When she withdraws, it signals you have mistaken yourself for lack, and your sense of separation is the dream you are waking from. The search and the refusal of answer are the inner movements of longing: you are insisting that the reality you desire already exists in your world of perception. The watchmen who smite the speaker are the old beliefs and distractions that keep attention pinned to mere appearances. The veil that is torn away by the keepers of the walls shows that protective layers can dissolve when you fix your mind on the end desired: unity with the beloved. The cry to the daughters of Jerusalem—"tell him I am sick with love"—becomes a command to your own subconscious to deliver you back to wholeness. Your task is to assume the feeling of the beloved’s return, to dwell in the assured presence that you are already beloved and beloved is you.