Inner Covenant of Peace

Neville's Inner Vision

To Joshua's act is not merely a treaty with outsiders; it is a turning within. In the Scripture you read not of geography but of the states of your own consciousness. The land is your inner field, and the agreement is the moment when a dispute in you is settled by the I AM: I am peace; I am life. The making of the league signifies that you bind a new state to endure, a promise sealed by the princes of the congregation—the higher impressions of yourself that approve and enforce the change. Mercy appears as the willingness to let what appears to threaten your comfort live as part of your wholeness, not as an enemy to be slain. Loyalty to the covenant means you do not break the promise by future doubt; you remain faithful to the new feeling until it hardens into memory as your present reality. Imagination, not force, builds the calm you seek; your inner world becomes the place where enemies dissolve into aspects now included in your life. So choose peace, swear the inner oath, and observe the living reality you have created with your I AM.