Inner Covenant Teachings

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the commandments as living principles resident in the I AM, not external laws. When you 'teach them diligently unto thy children', you teach the states of consciousness that dwell in you; the 'children' are your desires, fears, and habits. To speak of them 'when you sit', 'when you walk', 'when you lie down', 'when you rise up' is to seize every moment as a classroom where you renew the one idea you wish to inhabit. The binding on the hand and frontlets between the eyes are not literal objects but the intent to act in alignment with that idea and to fix it in your seeing. Writing them on the posts of your house and gates is the practice of making the idea visible in your environment—thoughts becoming words, words becoming deeds in your house. Realize that you are the teacher, the student, and the classroom; the state you desire is already present in your I AM. By continual revision and feeling it real, you awaken the inner routine by which the outer world reflects your inward state.