The Inner Image Law

Neville's Inner Vision

Genesis 9:6 is not a decree about bricks and prisons alone, but a mirror of your inner state. The statement that 'he who sheds blood' shall have blood shed denotes the universal law of life responding to your state of consciousness. When you feel violence toward another, you are, in truth, reshaping your own sense of life as separate from God; you are imagining a world where you stand apart from the divine image. In Neville's psychology, every person is a manifestation of the I AM—the God-aware you—so the image in anyone you harm is your own awareness violated. The image of God makes man sacred; therefore any act of harm is an error in assumption that life is finite. The corrective is to assume life as indivisible, to revise from fear to reverence, to feel the harmony of all beings as one living consciousness. Practice by dwelling in the feeling that you are the I AM protecting life everywhere, and by quietly but steadily treating others as the ongoing expression of God. Your inner trust will align events with justice and restore peaceful order in your world.