Covenant of Inner Purity

Neville's Inner Vision

From the Neville Goddard vantage, these injunctions are not external laws but inner alignments. Idols are the images you feed with attention; meats offered to idols are the habitual thoughts you worship, the loud pictures of security that demand your allegiance. When you abstain from such ‘offerings,’ you withdraw your attention from the counterfeit powers of fear and need. Blood and things strangled symbolize the lifeblood of old appetites—attachments you permit to drain your vitality—so you revise your inner diet: you choose vitality through the I AM, not through craving. Fornication stands for any union or compromise where your consciousness yields to fleeting appearances instead of the eternal you. The command invites you to set your inner house in order, to separate what feeds your true being from what blinds it. If you practice this, you shall do well, because you are aligning your inner state with wholeness, and the external scene will reflect the communion of your restored awareness.