Inner Boundaries of Purity

Neville's Inner Vision

The verse speaks not to beasts in the field but to the beasts within your own consciousness—the raw, undiscipled impulses that would contaminate the sacred atmosphere of your mind. To lie with such impulses is to blur the line between your sacred I AM and the crude image, producing confusion and scattering your power. The command to abstain is a call to take a clear stand in the field of awareness: you are the I AM, the seat of consciousness, and you may not identify with or yield to lower wishes. When you refuse to participate in the impulse, you create a boundary that preserves the integrity of your inner state. See the separation as a conscious choice, not a rule imposed from without. The prohibition becomes a practice: guard the inner realm, keep purity, and let holiness be your default by assuming the new state of being. Your imagination is the field where this boundary is drawn; once felt as real, it remains until you choose otherwise.