Abraham's Quiet Bargain

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the inner eye Neville teaches, the scene is not a mere bargain over land, but a drama of consciousness. Abraham's bow to the land and to the gate of the city is the reverent acknowledgment of the One Presence behind all appearance. The cave Machpelah stands for a fixed place in your life where memory and belonging are owned by your I AM. The insistence that Ephron should 'give' the cave for as much money as it is worth translates to the mental law: your outer world will yield to the value you attribute to it in inner vision. Abraham does not plead; he speaks from a state of fullness, naming the price as if it already belongs to him in principle. The audience of the Hethites represents the social mind you must meet in order to release belief. The inner lesson is simple: treat every transaction as a negotiation with your own consciousness and hold firm to the sense of possession granted by covenant. When you align your feelings with the truth of your I AM, the thing begins to pass from imagination to form.