Inner Garments And Exile Genesis 3:21-24

Neville's Inner Vision

Read as a drama of consciousness, Genesis 3:21-24 reveals the moment you shift your sense of life. The coats of skins signify a new state of awareness—mortality seen as your ordinary life, a skin you identify with. The Lord’s remark that man has become 'as one of us' marks a change in inner weather: you now know good and evil as a mental split, a decision to measure life by limitation rather than by limitless possibility. The tree of life is not a place but a perpetual livingness available to imagination; keeping it away is your mind’s way of saying, 'I will not yet live as if all is given.' Exile from the garden is not punishment but invitation to become conscious of your inner acts, to till a ground of your own choosing. The flaming sword marks the edge of old habit; the gate to eternity lies in your present I AM. Remember: you can return to the garden whenever you assume and feel life as unchangeable now.