The Inner Statute Manifested

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville Goddard’s awakening style, the verse speaks not of external policy but of an inner law formed by the I AM. 'It was so from that day forward' signals a decisive moment when consciousness chooses a new personalization of reality. The 'statute and ordinance' are inner habits—immutable states of mind—that you set within your own inner Israel, your faculties of perception and will. When such a law is imagined and felt as already true, it becomes the governing principle by which all events align. The phrase 'unto this day' reveals the lasting effect of a single act of consciousness: once you decree and feel the truth of a higher covenant—loyalty to your truer self, holiness in motive, and faithfulness to your imaginative trust—it endures, shaping present experience. Your inner Israel is not a history but a present posture: a fixed, living standard you maintain by attention and belief. Thus, the verse invites you to inhabit a new self-rule, written by your imagining and kept alive by your inner attention.