Inner Law Beyond Commandment

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider Ephraim as a state of consciousness that has mistaken obedience for alignment with the Living I AM. The verse says he is oppressed and broken in judgment because he willingly walked after the commandment—meaning the mind chose regulation and external rule over the inner life that gives true discernment. When you live by law alone, you project a perception of order while withholding the awareness that orders you from within. The 'oppression' is not punishment from without, but the clamping down of imagination when you identify with a commandment as separate from God in you. The inner man, the I AM, is the sole governor; the moment you imagine you are the law rather than living by it, you displace the source of power and invite constraint. To reverse this, awaken the understanding that the commandment is not an external decree but the living word you already are. Return to the basis: you are the consciousness that enacts law by awareness, not by submission to textual rules. The shift is a revision in feeling that the inner commandment is fulfilled now, through you, as you.