Inner Bondage and Dominion

Neville's Inner Vision

From the Neville perspective, Leviticus speaks not of outward servitude but the inner dependency of a mind clinging to fixed beliefs. The bondmen and bondmaids are not people but states of consciousness—habits, fears, and identifications with lack or limitation. The heathen round about you symbolizes the continual thoughts and influences that encircle your sense of self. To buy and inherit them is to invest attention in these mental states, to let them become your habitual possessions and lineage. Yet there is a quiet corrective: over your brethren you shall not rule with rigour. Within you lies a law of harmony that resists coercive mental domination. The true question is which inner state you will permit to govern your inner world. You can revise this condition by returning to the I AM, affirming ownership of your mind, and inviting freedom to replace compulsion with spaciousness, trust, and compassionate vision. The inheritance you pass on to your children, in Neville terms, is the mood you cultivate: pass on wholeness rather than the memory of bondage. Your imagination, rightly used, dissolves the very bonds you once deemed permanent.