Neville Goddard on James 2:11 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read James 2 in context

Scripture Focus

11For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

James 2:11

Biblical Context

James 2:11 links the commandments against adultery and against killing, showing that violating one violates the whole law; inner disposition mirrors outward behavior.

Neville's Inner Vision

James 2:11 reveals that the so called laws against adultery and against killing are not two separate rules, but one inner law of consciousness. When you affirm one commandment while allowing another to be hidden in your heart, you transgress the law because you deny the unity of life within you. In Neville fashion, the law is not something external to be kept but the I AM awareness by which you imagine and experience reality. The moment you see that your thoughts, feelings, and imagination mold a single image of yourself, you understand that to condemn or harm in thought is to violate the inner decree you live by. To avoid the contradiction, revise the inner image so that your nature is fully in harmony with love and life; feel the truth of oneness until it becomes your felt reality. When the inner state is complete, outward acts align with that law, and you no longer find yourself a transgressor of the only law there is, the law of consciousness through which you create.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Assume the end now by stating I am the one within who keeps the inner law; revise any thought of separation, and feel that wholeness as if it already exists. Do this for a few minutes and watch your outer world begin to reflect the revision.