The Inner Court of Justice

Neville's Inner Vision

In the inner court of your consciousness, the controversy is not between people outside but between states of awareness within you—the part that seeks alignment with truth and the fear that keeps you from it. The judges are your disciplined faculties, the still I AM that knows what is right. To 'justify the righteous' is to affirm the part of you that already embodies wholeness; to 'condemn the wicked' is to acknowledge the belief that has fallen from that wholeness. The corporal beating is a symbolic correction, a limit set to remind you that you must discipline your thoughts with measure rather than with self-destruction. Forty stripes, not to exceed, becomes a sign that you will not overdo the mind's correction, for excess blinds you to your true nature and makes you seem vile to yourself. When you consent to this inner order—knowing you are the I AM and the source of every judgment—you restore balance where discord appeared. The law here is mercy in technique: you adjust, you re-state, and you awaken to the truth that the righteous self remains, and the wicked belief is only a dream needing revision.