Inner Touch, Outer Trial

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville Goddard's reading, the 'touch' is not a literal affliction from an external force but a belief-forming state of consciousness pressing upon awareness. Job's bone and flesh symbolize the most tangible beliefs about vulnerability that manifest as outer conditions. The 'curse' represents the inner verdict we pronounce when we identify with pain or threat. God is the I AM within you, unaffected by any supposed physical harm; the trial invites you to discover your power to remain intact regardless of appearances. If you would be free, you must refuse to consent to the idea that circumstances define you. Assume the feeling of complete wholeness now, and inhabit the consciousness that you are the observer, not the subject, of any sensation. Let imagination be your lamp: dwell in the inner fact of union with the I AM, and watch the outer scene shift from danger to triumph as inner state becomes outer circumstance. The inner discipline transforms the perceived threat into inner authority.