Inner Covenant of Obedience

Neville's Inner Vision

Jeremiah’s verse presents a people who stand as a single inner state: obedience. Jonadab’s voice is not a memory but a psychic principle, an inner commandment implanted in their I AM. To drink no wine is not abstinence from beverage but the refusal of intoxication by desire—keeping the mind clear, available, and loyal to a designated end. Their claim that they have kept 'in all that he hath charged us' reveals that an idea, when believed and upheld, becomes the very atmosphere in which life moves. This inner vow extends from the self to the family—the wives, sons, and daughters—symbolizing how a stabilized consciousness reorganizes its entire personal field around a chosen law. Neville would say: your present world follows your dominant state. If you align with a steadfast inner command, you cease negotiating with every passing impulse; the external scene adjusts to reflect that inner fidelity. The secret is not a tradition, but the imagination that accepts and dwells in that law, feeling it as real now.