Inner Turnings and Divine Justice

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Ezekiel, the 'way of the Lord' is not a distant decree but the state of my consciousness. I judge life by the inner dispositions I presently hold, and what seems unfair is simply my current alignment. When I turn away from a righteousness I no longer inhabit and slip into old iniquities, that inner state dies; when I turn from wickedness and choose what is lawful and right, a new life becomes possible. The divider is not God judging from without, but the inner law of consciousness returning to me the consequences of my chosen state. If I cry that the way is not equal, I am being summoned to revise that belief into the recognition that I am the one who lives by the turnings of mind. I revise by assuming a new state, and I feel it real living now as the lawful and right, seeing the world respond from that center. In this way, Ezekiel's words become your inward practice: judge yourself by your present state, and reform it until life itself mirrors your new consciousness.