Inner Cleanliness and Obedience

Neville's Inner Vision

Within your consciousness, the creeping things are states of mind that slide through your life—doubt, fear, petty appetites, lingering habits. The law calling them an abomination is the urgent whisper of your I AM: do not dwell or feed on these lower movements. Earth, belly, four feet, many feet are images for the ways your thoughts hug the surface of life, moving in circles, never rising to the light of awareness. When you accept a thought as real you digest it; when you refuse to entertain it, you starve it and it dies in its own movement. The 'holiness and separation' spoken in the context of the natural law translates here as mental order: you separate from the mind’s creeping propensities and align with the one Life that you are in truth—the I AM. Obedience becomes a practice of the moment: you assume the state that you are a being of pure consciousness and you revise any lower thought by declaring it unfit for your inner nourishment. As you dwell in that awareness, your world restructures to reflect the purity you have chosen.