What happens at the moment of seeing God, described as an operation rather than a reward. When you see God you see the only reality, and you become what you see: like a seal upon wax the impress is made and you bear the image of God - not on the physical garment but on the eternal one, which has been waiting for the moment in time when the heart was pure gold. Neville insists the change is continuous and already under way, and quotes 2 Corinthians 3:18 in what he calls its present active sense: we all, with unveiled face, beholding the Lord, are being changed into his very image from one glory to another glory, and it is done by the Spirit, so no one can boast of it. The one who has received the impress puts the veil on again and returns, and nobody sees it - they see the being they have always known - but he is not the same to himself: he knows what he saw and what he became at that moment, and he was like the molten gold that took it and returned to tell it. Kept as a child of the contemplation motif: the parent is the general law that we become what we behold, and this is the case where what is beheld is God.