Worship Beyond The Law Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Verse 13–14 presents the mind confronted by a claim that worship must bend to a legal code. In Neville’s terms, the accusation of worshiping contrary to the law is the old state protesting the birth of a higher awareness within. The governor Gallio stands for the outer mind—the voice of law, reason, and social order—that would keep you in the old pattern. But the inner Paul—the true self that hears and speaks from within—knows worship as a state of consciousness, not a ritual performed under external decree. When he opens his mouth, it is the I AM speaking through you, and the so-called law loses its final authority. The outer world does not impose an inner reality; your awareness creates what you accept as real. Therefore, to worship God aright is to fix your attention on the Presence that you already are, to feel the oneness that dissolves the sense of separation, and to trust that your state of consciousness governs every outward appearance. In short, the true law is the law of your own awareness.