Brethren, Conscience, and Unity

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the brethren not as separate persons, but as different states of your own consciousness. When you sin against them by judgment, fear, or action that wounds their weak conscience, you are tearing at the fabric of your own awareness. The verse declares that such injury is an offense against Christ—the inner Christ, the I AM within you and within all. To sin against a brother is to deny the unity you share with him; it is to deny that your thoughts and feelings are the same life, the same awareness. Therefore, the cure is to assume the truth of inner oneness now: see the other as an aspect of your own I AM, and refuse any thought or deed that harms their sense of being. Hold the feeling of love, forgiveness, and completeness until it feels real. In practice, you revise by choosing harmony in your imagination, blessing the other, and affirming that the Christ within them is the same Christ within you. When you align your inner state, the outer world reflects that unity.