Inner Law of Restitution

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this line, the law is not a calendar of edicts but a mirror of your inner state. 'Killeth a beast' and 'killeth a man' speak of the same act in different degrees: you have slain something within you—desires, impulses, aspects of your life—and must restore them by reviving the life you have denied. To 'kill a beast' is to extinguish a rough, lower facet of yourself; restoration means returning it to harmony within the larger Life you are. 'Killeth a man'—the essential life—points to the death of a stubborn, separate consciousness that imagines itself apart from God’s life. The penalty you fear is not punishment from without but the natural consequence of living in a rift in consciousness; the way back is restitution: imagine, in feeling, that you have restored what you harmed, you have reconciled the inner world to its Source. Justice then becomes an inner alignment: your mind remembers its unity with the I AM and yields a new equilibrium.