Ladder of Inner Virtues

Neville's Inner Vision

In the view of Neville Goddard, the verse is a map of consciousness. Beside this, giving all diligence, means you must relentlessly train your inner attention to ascend through states: faith as your initial knowing, virtue as alignment, knowledge as discernment, temperance as self-control, patience as steadfastness, godliness as reverence, brotherly kindness as compassionate others, and charity as pure love. Each quality is not a new external rule but a shifted state of awareness that you can inhabit now. By assuming you are already the man who carries these states, you revise your self-image and let the inner moves instantiate outward experience. The ladder is the living texture of your I AM, and imagination becomes the instrument by which you add to your faith the rest of the virtues. The more you dwell in the feeling of having them, the more your life demonstrates the inner order you have embraced.