Inner Sin Through Ignorance
Leviticus 4:2 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Leviticus 4 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verse warns that a person can sin out of ignorance against God's commands. It speaks to an inner law and the need for alignment with that law.
Neville's Inner Vision
Think of sin not as an external trespass but as a transient state of consciousness that forgets its own source. When a soul sins through ignorance against the commandments, it is the I AM within you momentarily lost in a thought contrary to the divine law. The commandments are not external laws but inner alignments of awareness: to do what ought not to be done is to dissociate from the living truth of who you are. The path to atonement is not punishment but a revising of the inner condition until the instinctive response of your mind aligns with divine order. In Neville’s terms, forgiveness and reconciliation occur as you return your attention to the I AM, re-imprinting the situation so that the act arises from a state of clarity rather than ignorance. The mode of operation is imagination: before you act, imagine the full presence of the law within you, and imagine yourself as already in harmony with it; your perception shifts and the deed follows that shift.
Practice This Now
Practice: when you sense a slip, close your eyes and assume the state that would have produced the right action—see yourself already in alignment with the inner law; feel it real as present tense and rewrite the scene in your mind so that your next move arises from restored awareness.
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