Inner Covenant Of Property

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through Neville's lens, the passage is an inner map. The donkey, ox, and sheep stand for aspects of your life you lend to circumstances—your talents, time, and attention. When these 'goods' die or are harmed in your keeping, and no witness is present, the oath you utter is a declaration of your inner integrity: you did not move against the neighbor's goods. If something is stolen or torn, the act of restitution becomes a revision of your inner story, not a bargaining with an outside world. If you borrowed a faculty and it suffers when the owner is away, you must restore it in your consciousness; if the owner is with it, you participate in its wholeness and no repayment is required. The force behind these forms is simple: your state of consciousness governs what returns to you. The practical effect is to keep your inner treasury intact by repeatedly affirming that all goods are under the I AM, unaltered by external appearances.