Inner Priests and the Path

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice that Hosea does not condemn a distant church alone; he points to the inner state that would permit such brutality. In Neville’s language, the 'priests' are your inner thoughts-assumptions that pose as authority. When this inner faculty aligns with fear, aggression, or appetite and gives its consent to harm, life itself is murdered in the normal, everyday way—the pattern becomes a troop of robbers awaiting any outward target. The 'way' becomes a habitual course of action you repeatedly walk, formed by belief and feeling, until purity and integrity feel like a distant memory. The remedy is to awaken a higher I AM consciousness, a revised guard within who acts from life rather than destruction. Realize that the murderer is not a person but a state of consciousness you entertain and consent to. Revise that inner narrative by asserting a priestly presence who protects life, honors purity, and acts with justice in every moment. When you assume this inner authority and embody it, the outer scene shifts to reflect a new, harmonious order.