Inner Gates of Judgment

Neville's Inner Vision

To the I AM within, this passage is a map of your inner court. The 'wicked thing' is not a person but an idol in consciousness—an attachment, fear, or habit you have given authority to imagine you must obey. The gates are the doors of awareness where you render judgment on what you permit to occupy you. The decree to stone is a symbolic invitation to dissolve the old self that clings to that idol. When you meet the verse in your imagination, you do not punish anyone in the outer world; you revise your inner weather. You are the I AM, and you may withdraw belief, pronounce that the idol dies, and feel a clearing light replace it. The act of stoning becomes the moment you refuse to feed the thought, turn away from it, and welcome a new version of yourself that is free of that idol. In practice, replace the idol with the awareness that you are the creator of appearances, and watch the inner state shift.