Provision as Inner Covenant

Neville's Inner Vision

To the mystic, the verse is not about historical marriage laws but about your inner covenant. The 'man' is the I AM—the commanding, inner state. Taking 'another wife' is your new desire displacing the primary state. The three requirements—food, clothing, and the duty of marriage—are symbolic for the sustenance of your original state: thoughts that feed it, feelings that clothe it in dignity, and disciplined acts that keep it mated to its law. If you withhold these three from the primary state, the old condition is paraded out, and the new desire leaves unseeded and free. Therefore, you must not abandon the first reality; you must assume, revise, and feel it real that the original covenant remains nourished, garbed, and present in every moment. When you do, you demonstrate that inner justice is real in your consciousness, and provision follows as natural expression. Your inner world requires that you not fragment your attention but keep the first state intact through consistent imagination.