Inner Diet Of Clean States

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the quiet of your consciousness, Deuteronomy 14:4-6 is not asking you to scout a market, but to inspect your inner pantry. The beasts you may eat are the habits and thoughts you sustain; those with a split hoof and cud-chewing are the stable, feedable states that can travel through any terrain your life requires. The criteria—the parteth the hoof and cleaveth the cleft into two—point to two gifts: boundary and reflection. Boundaries keep your thoughts clean; reflection turns experience into nourishment by chewing it again until it becomes wisdom. The hart, roebuck, and chamois symbolize diverse impulses; they remain clean only when aligned with the covenant loyalty of the I AM within you—your steadfast awareness. When you honor what is clean, you refuse unclean impulses by choice, and your inner temple remains a sanctuary rather than a battlefield. The law then becomes a practical invitation: decide what you will nourish, assume you are already that state, and let imagination do the rest.