Forsaking the Inner Law

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the outer act mirrors an inner decision. Rehoboam, in the moment he strengthened himself, embodies a state of consciousness that believes safety lies in power apart from the inner law. When he forsakes the LORD's law, the whole nation mirrors that private shift, revealing that places and events are only outer effects of an inner choice. Neville reads this as the moment we identify with an egoic security, insisting I have established and thus excusing disregard for the higher law within. The law is not a rule to be kept as a burden but an inner alignment of awareness with truth. To fall away is not punishment but a signal that the inner state has wandered from the I AM, the living I-nature. The cure is not reforming externals but returning to the assumption that the LAW already governs and I am its expression. When I claim that the LORD's law is alive in me, I stop making my kingdom apart from it, and obedience becomes a natural feeling, a felt-reality of harmony between self and the divine principle.