Inner Sword of Consciousness

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, Deuteronomy 13:15 becomes an allegory of interior purification. The city is a state of consciousness, and its inhabitants are the recurring thoughts and feelings you mistake for yourself. The edge of the sword is not brute force but the decisive act of the I AM—your awareness choosing to redefine what is real. Smite and destroy; let the old belief pattern be dissolved utterly, not by punishment but by a radical revision in feeling and assumption. The cattle are the trains of desire and habit that march to the tune of that old fear; removing them clears the way for a new ruling truth to govern your life. This is obedience to your true nature, faithfulness to the I AM, and holy separation from anything that denies your oneness with God. When you imagine yourself as the I AM, you don't conquer others; you liberate yourself from limitation. In that moment, judgment becomes just, and judgment is simply the inner correction that makes room for the new state you now inhabit—a life where possibilities are manifest through disciplined imagining.