Inner Justice and Refuge

Neville's Inner Vision

Exodus 21:12–14, in the Neville key, speaks to your inner state more than to external law. The 'man you smite' is a symbol of a conflict within your consciousness; the death of that pattern signals the ending of a habit born of fear or guile. If you did not lie in wait, your higher awareness—God, the I AM—may deliver the result into your hands as you revise. The 'place whither he shall flee' becomes the safe harbor inside your mind where you drop the old motive and rest in truth. 'Take him from mine altar' means remove the old impulse from the altar of faith you attend to daily, so the old impulse dies in your dream. When you act with guile, you displace harmony; you are invited to let the whole scene be rearranged by a new assumption. Practice: assume I AM as the all-governing presence; revise the motive until you feel it real that the pattern is dissolved and justice flows as love.