Inner Union and Discipline

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville's sense, the verses reveal that 'man' and 'woman' are inner states of consciousness; 'touch' is contact with external stimuli, while 'own wife/husband' denotes devoting your inner life to a single, faithful ideal. To 'avoid fornication' is to prevent inner fragmentation by choosing a singular, harmonious channel for desire—your ongoing I AM-attuned state. When you dwell in the awareness that you are always the I AM, you no longer seek fulfillment through outward acts but through the unity of consciousness you affirm now. The discipline is not denial but devotion: cultivate a stable inner partner by imagining you are already in intimate union with your chosen state, and let that assumption reshape your feelings, choices, and relationships. Your life then mirrors that inner alignment, and seeming impulses lose their grip as you stand in the wholeness of the one reality you harbor within.