Purity in Inner Waters
Deuteronomy 14:9-10 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Deuteronomy 14 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Deuteronomy 14:9-10 prescribes foods of the waters that have fins and scales as clean; those without fins and scales are unclean.
Neville's Inner Vision
Let us see this not as a dietary law but as a mirror of your inner state. The ‘fins and scales’ are the things that let you move freely in your inner sea, the habitual thoughts and feelings that harmonize with your I AM. What is unclean is any belief or impulse that blocks your wholeness, any appetite that does not align with your true nature. When you accept this, you see that the boundary between clean and unclean is a boundary you draw within your mind. You are not commanded by externals; you are the commanding I AM, the divine observer who chooses what enters your inner waters. Your job is to imagine and live as if you already eat from a clean treasury of consciousness—refusting to ingest thoughts that lack fins and scales, and embracing those that support health, clarity, and holiness. In this light, the law becomes a description of your present state, not a rule imposed from without. Your inner diet is the evidence of your spiritual hygiene.
Practice This Now
Imaginatively, assume you are already the one who eats only 'clean' thoughts; revise a current appetite by declaring, 'I am whole, and all thoughts that do not serve wholeness are unclean to me.'
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