Inner War, Inner Law

Neville's Inner Vision

On the surface this passage is a scene of external conflict, but in truth it is a mirror of inner life. The wife is the impulse in me to rescue, to fix, to control outcomes in another's struggle. The act of grabbing 'the secrets' points to meddling at the hidden springs of life—the private motives I would pry from another's consciousness. The decree 'thou shalt cut off her hand' is not a call to punishment but a symbol of the law of consequence when I insist on intervening from a place of fear rather than awareness. The battle resides in my own states of consciousness; when I seek to alter someone else's inner process, I sever a part of my own perception and close off pity. The remedy is to return to the I AM, to stand as the observer who does not override but understands. As I revise my state to one of steady, compassionate awareness, the impulse to interfere fades, and the 'scene' forges a gentler, more harmonized expression in my life.