Inner Word, Clean Mind

Neville's Inner Vision

Let us translate this verse into the language of your inner man. The 'filthiness' and 'superfluity of naughtiness' are not just outward faults; they are stale mental images you have taken as real. You are called to lay them aside and to receive with meekness the engrafted word—the living idea planted in you by your I AM. When you acknowledge that this word is already the truth of your being, you awaken to a saving of the soul as a present condition of consciousness, not a distant reward. The engrafted word is not a command to strive harder; it is the recognition that you are the embodiment of divine truth, and that your imagination is the soil in which this truth grows. As you cast off the old self and consent to the word, your inner climate changes; thoughts calm, fear dissolves, and the life you see begins to answer from within. This is salvation: a shift in awareness that makes the reality of your sonship present here and now, within the I AM you call God.