Inner Union Exegesis

Neville's Inner Vision

Within your consciousness, the 'maid not betrothed' is a state not yet united to the I AM. The man who entices is the impulse of imagination courting union with that state. The act of 'lying with' her becomes a moment of inner consent—allowing the imagined state to enter your being, not by external coercion but by firm acceptance that it is already yours. 'Endow her to be his wife' is investing the imagined state with reality—dressing it with the feeling of daily life until it rests as fact in your inner courtroom. If the outer 'father'—the resistance of circumstance, habit, or doubt—refuses, the text hands you a price: pay the dowry by choosing a steadfast assumption. The dowry is your inner currency: the unwavering conviction, the repeated feeling that the union is already true. The law here is not judgment but technique: your inner consent creates the outer form. Begin now: assume the state you want as if it already is your present experience, and dwell there until your I AM recognizes it as real.