Inner Departure Toward Purity

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through Neville's lamp, the they are your inner states of consciousness. When the scripture cries Depart ye; it is unclean, it is your decision to withdraw attention from a belief or feeling you have mistaken for reality. The word unclean marks the perception that you have treated as true a picture born of fear, lack, or limitation. To depart is to revise, to refuse contact, to shift your center of attention away from that story and toward the I AM that remains unaffected by appearances. The command to touch not means you do not engage with the dirty thought or the tempting scenario; you replace it by silently affirming I am that I AM, the pure, unconditioned awareness in which such images dissolve. When the verse says they fled away and wandered, it declares you can remove yourself from that recurrent scene; you return to your true habitation, the holy, indivisible sense of self that abides beyond form. Practice this inward separation until the old state loses its pull and your life proves the inner kingdom.