Millstone Pledges Unbound

Neville's Inner Vision

Read as the inner life of a pledge, Deuteronomy 24:6 reveals that to threaten life by a contract is to misread the stage of consciousness. The letter's warning—do not take the millstone to pledge—becomes a living allegory for the mind that thinks life is scarce and negotiable. In the domain of I AM, there is no creditor, only awareness that you are the source of every appearance. If you believe you must bind another's life to secure your own gain, you are not free; you are merely imagining a lack that calls forth limitation. When you awaken to I AM as the creative watcher, you stop offering the nether or upper millstone to anyone or anything. You cease to pledge life away because you know you are the life within which all events unfold. Your imagination is the instrument by which reality is formed; use it to dissolve fear, never to barter life. Begin by observing a current contract or belief that feels life-bound, and revise it by affirming, I AM the life of all that I observe.