Inner Restitution for Abundance

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, Exodus 22:1 reads as a law written in the inner economy, not merely a civil statute about livestock. Theft arises as a state of consciousness that feels lack and holds too tightly to forms as if they were separate from the Self. The command to restore—five oxen for an ox, four sheep for a sheep—shows that balance is restored by a deliberate correction in the imagination, not merely by paying a debt. When you imagine returning more value than was taken, you re-educate your assumption about supply and worth. The numbers symbolize the scale of inner adjustment: abundance returns in exact proportion to the conviction you replace. The actor who steals becomes the one who revises his inner image until the sense of want dissolves and the Reality of your I AM asserts itself as sufficiency. The legal form becomes spiritual guidance: you reclaim dominion by accepting responsibility for your inner state and by practicing restitution in imagination until your outer world aligns with justice and fullness.