Inner Firstborn Law

Neville's Inner Vision

This verse translates into a listening for the inner law that governs your mind. The 'firstborn' is your established state of awareness; the 'younger' is a newer impulse seeking birth. Laban’s claim that 'it must not be so done' represents the stubborn habit of the old mind resisting change. When Jacob is told to 'fulfil her week' and serve seven more years, you are shown that a real shift cannot sprout without honoring the current cycle of attention and gratitude to your present self. The seven years symbolize the time required to integrate a shift in consciousness. In Neville's practice you do not argue with the law but align with it as your own inner choice; by accepting the elder, you permit the younger to mature as a natural fruit of inner order. Imagine the elder settled, and let the desired state arrive through the felt reality of your I AM.