Inner Bondage, Inner Freedom

Neville's Inner Vision

Behold, you think to bind others as if they were other than your own inner states. In my version, the 'they' are the characters that live in your mind, the impulses and judgments you permit to govern your sense of self. The sermon is not about political oppression out there; it is about the oppression you feel when you refuse to release a part of your consciousness you deem inferior. The ones you would enslave are the images of your own fear, guilt, and self-doubt. The LORD your God is the I AM within you, the living, unconditioned awareness that never enslaves. When you persist in assuming others are under you, you reveal sins against that God: the belief you are separate from your own divine source. The remedy is to revise from that state—to assume the ruler's seat in your mind, to see all in your world as free co-existers in the light of your I AM. Then the external tyranny dissolves as a mere projection of your inner order.