Inner Curse And Quiet Justice

Neville's Inner Vision

In true Neville fashion, think of the commandment against secret violence as a law of inner settlement. The curse spoken of in Deuteronomy is not a divine threat cast upon others but the natural consequence of a mind that secretly harms its neighbor. When you entertain thoughts of injury, blame, or superiority in the privacy of your imagination, you are smiting your neighbor in the only field that truly counts—the field of consciousness. The I AM, which you are, does not judge from without; it recognizes only what you cultivate within. Therefore, the community Amen is not a verdict from a remote God but the inward agreement of your own attention with a pain you have imagined. To dissolve the curse, assume a different state. Enter the feeling that you and your neighbor are one in the I AM; bless rather than wound; forgive in advance; forgive yourself for past murmurs. As you dwell in that assumption, the secret violence vanishes, and your outer world follows your revised inner state.