Inner Measures of Righteousness

Neville's Inner Vision

Within you, the Lord God speaks as the I AM, the sustaining awareness. The instruction to remove violence and spoil is not about other people; it is a call to purge the violent, grasping thought that grounds scarcity in your mind. The 'princes of Israel' are the ruling portions of your consciousness—the thoughts that weigh, measure, and decide what you will take from life. When you insist on exactions, you create a world of lack; when you render judgment with justice, you align your inner economy with the cosmic law of balance. The ephah, the bath, the shekel are symbols of your inner economy: each measure must be of one consistent quality so that your life does not overflow with fear or underfeed with faith. The oblation—the grain, oil, and lamb—is your living offerings, the energy you dedicate to your life’s temple; these offerings must be proportional to your current state, to be reconciled by your ruling consciousness. All the people of the land—your whole being—join in this oblation for the prince, i.e., the inner ruler; and the prince then provides the syntheses that make reconciliation possible within your house. When you live by this inner law, you are not performing rites; you are becoming a vessel of harmony, justice, and peace within.