Return to the Commandment Mind

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the text speaks not of history but of the living state of consciousness. When you hear, 'we have forsaken thy commandments,' you are awakening to a momentary drift of attention away from your I AM, the inner legislator of life. Do not seek forgiveness as if from a separate judge; rather, recognize that you have imagined yourself separated from the law by assuming an alien state of mind. In Neville’s terms, return to the original premise: you are the one consciousness that maintains order by obedience to the divine pattern within. By assuming, for the moment, that you are still aligned with the commands of your God-ward self, you revise the impression of estrangement. Hold the image that law governs you now, that your desires and actions flow from the same eternal rule. The outer confession becomes a pointing inward, a turning the attention from lack to presence. In that shift, the 'forsaking' dissolves as you dwell in the awareness that you are already keeping the commandments in your inner life.