Inner Focus, Holiness of Self

Neville's Inner Vision

To Paul, the distinction is not about social status but about the state of your consciousness. The 'virgin' and the 'wife' awaken as inner dispositions. The unmarried state denotes a mind free from the pull of appetite and external obligation, a vessel whose attention is fixed on the things of the Lord—the divine order within. In Neville's terms, holiness in body and spirit is not a rule imposed from without, but an inner alignment of self with the I AM, the awareness that cannot be moved by appearances. When you inhabit the state of 'careth for the things of the Lord', your thoughts flow toward purity and unity, and your form—how you express, speak, act—reflects that sacred alignment. Conversely, the 'married' state represents a consciousness that spends its energy pleasing a 'worldly husband'—the appetites, duties, distractions of worldly life. Yet you can revise this by assuming the marriage to the Lord alone, letting external roles become channels through which your inner devotion is expressed. The world's busyness dissolves when you remind yourself: I am the I AM; I choose the divine, not the momentary demand.