From Wilderness to Beloved

Neville's Inner Vision

8:5 speaks to a soul rising from barren places by the grace of the Beloved. In Neville’s terms, the wilderness is your present state of lack or fear, and the Beloved is the I AM you actually are—awareness that never leaves you. To come up from the wilderness leaning on the Beloved is to acknowledge that you are carried by your own divine consciousness, not by external figures. The apple tree is the inner nourishment—the imaginative ground where you are repeatedly given birth. Under it you are raised and brought forth that bears thee; this is the birth of your true self through a conscious act of assumption. In practice, you do not seek to become; you re-enter the state you already are: the beloved supporting you, the mother consciousness birthing you into a fuller expression now. Your life becomes the scene of ongoing inner birth because imagination, rightly used, refashions your perception and your world. The presence of God is the constant I AM, the intimate Beloved who makes possible every awakening. Live in the reality of that seated birth, and the outward scene follows the inner conviction.