Kinship Boundaries Within Consciousness
Leviticus 21:2-3 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Leviticus 21 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The passage names near-relatives (mother, father, son, daughter, brother, and a virgin sister) as those whose proximity carries ritual defilement. It frames this kinship circle as a boundary of sacred order.
Neville's Inner Vision
What you call defilement in this text is not dirt on the flesh, but a misalignment in your state of consciousness about those closest to you. Your mother, father, children, brothers and sisters are images within your I AM, and their purity or defilement mirrors your beliefs and feelings. By assuming a new state—that the I AM is the governing presence within you—you revise away the fear, guilt, or separation that once colored these relationships. See each kin as an aspect of your own consciousness, held in divine order, not by ritual rules but by the immutable certainty of your own awareness. When you feel defiled by proximity, simply return to the awareness that you are the I AM, and all who stand near you are sanctified by that presence. The near is a symbol for the inner life you govern with your imagination and faith.
Practice This Now
Assume the I AM is the ruler of your inner house: see your closest kin bathed in radiant order. If a sense of defilement arises, revise by declaring that the I AM within me makes us whole; we are one in sacred order.
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