Inner Covenant of Alignment

Neville's Inner Vision

Seeing Joshua 9:18 through Neville's lens, the vow sworn by the princes is an inner commitment, a state of consciousness that governs outward action. The princes represent the ruling ideas within the mind, and the congregation the emotional pull of the crowd. When the mind aligns with the I AM—here spoken as LORD God of Israel—it binds the outer world to a divine decision. The “not smiting” is the outer result of an inner assumption kept intact. The murmuring of the congregation is the ego resisting a new state, not a contradiction to be solved, but a signal to deepen the inner covenant. Therefore, your task is to treat the vow as real in imagination and to maintain it despite appearances. By holding the inner oath, you knit together disparate events into a single life governed by your divine idea. In practice, inner alignment creates outer harmony, and seeming conflicts yield to the authority of the assumed state.