Conscience's Gentle Rebuke

Neville's Inner Vision

In this passage, the figures are not distant people but inner states of consciousness. The rebuke is the voice of your I AM awakening to misalignment in your thoughts and impulses. The 'sons' symbolize rival urges and habits acting without reverence for divine law; the 'people' are the thoughts and directions of your life that these impulses ripple through. When you hear the rebuke, you become aware that your inner state has been shaping outward conduct and the community of your mind has fallen into transgression. Neville's method asks you to reverse the scene by assuming a new state: that you are governed by the standard of holiness within, that the inner governor corrects itself and all impulses bow to obedience to the law. By dwelling in the feeling that you are already aligned with the I AM, you enact a revision where outer actions reflect inner integrity. Through imagination, you re-create your inner atmosphere until it mirrors righteousness, thus reforming your life from the root.