Remembering Freedom Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Verse 16:12 speaks of memory and law, but in the Goddard spirit it reveals that bondage is a state of consciousness you can change by an act of inner assumption. Egypt is not a distant country; it is the mind clinging to limitation. The command to observe and do these statutes becomes a discipline of the imagination, a way of aligning your inner atmosphere with a law that holds you in freedom. When you identify with the memory of bondage, you feed the old identity; when you revise that memory, you plant a new assumption: I am the one who has left bondage behind and now lives by the inner statutes of a higher order. This is not piety aimed at a distant God but the soul obeying itself, in tune with the I AM that you are. The outward world then reflects the inward harmony, and your covenant loyalty is to your own inner I AM. By repeatedly returning to this inner posture, you sustain the freedom you imagine and allow it to become your experience.