Inner Covenant Obedience

Neville's Inner Vision

To Joshua 1:16, the people answer with a living state of alignment: 'we will do all that thou commandest us, and go whithersoever thou sendest us.' In Neville’s psychology, the crowd is a state of consciousness within you; obedience is the steady, unwavering attention to the inner command you have assumed as true. The command corresponds to an imaginal act you accept as fact; to obey is to refuse competing pictures and let the inner image lead your steps. 'Whithersoever thou sendest us, we will go' becomes your readiness to be guided by the imagined end, to let the inner vision determine your direction, regardless of surface appearances. The pledge embodies covenant loyalty to the self you are becoming—the true I AM—by choosing to align every impulse, memory, and feeling with that end. When you hold the feeling that the end is already done, outer events unfold to reflect the inner command. Your imagination is the ruler, and obedience is faith in the unseen that makes it real.