Inner Covenant for Renewal

Neville's Inner Vision

Within your consciousness, the tribe represents the whole I AM, and Benjamin is a fragment that endured a crisis of separation. The elders are your higher faculties weighing how to restore life to that fragment without violating a sacred outer law. The destroyed women are not literal people but beliefs, possibilities, or energies that have seemingly been taken from the field of your mind by a past event. The insistence that no daughter may be given reflects a mental rule that life must be earned by strict rites, a fear that to offer new life would abandon the vow that holds the whole together. Neville would say: awaken to the truth that no true vow can destroy life; the vow is a state of mind that can be revised. The way to preserve unity is to provide Benjamin with a new inheritance—an inner environment in which he can thrive with new companions: two or three empowered beliefs or states of awareness that sustain him without breaking your deepest sense of order. When you imagine these unions and feel the reality of their life coursing through you, the entire Israel within you is renewed.