Inner Plea Against Wickedness

Neville's Inner Vision

Verse 7 reads as a single, intimate appeal, but Neville teaches us to hear it as an inner vow. The 'brethren' are states of consciousness within you—fear, appetite, judgment, kindness—crowding the one I AM who stands behind all thoughts. When one part says, 'do not so wickedly,' it is the I AM asserting its sovereignty over the crowd, refusing to empower any impulse that harms or diminishes another. This is not judgment of others but a decision of your own imagination: you will not permit inner violence to rule your world. In Neville’s language, this is holiness and separation—the choice to align every inner movement with love, mercy, and integrity. The outer scene mirrors your inner state; to revise the moment is to revise your entire experience. By assuming the quality of the higher self, you withdraw identification from the crowd and awaken to unity within. The call to neighbor-love becomes a call to self-mastery, revealing that the only wickedness is imagining yourself apart from the whole.