Inner Authority to Forgive

Neville's Inner Vision

To the I AM in you, the scene speaks not of another man but of a state of consciousness. The scribes’ argument, who can forgive sins, but God alone, is your mind measuring its own power. Yet forgiveness in Neville’s sense is not granted by an external hand; it arises when you recognize that the only real authority is awareness itself. If you are willing to suspend the habit of judging and blaming, you awaken to the truth that you, as the I AM, stand outside the old law of sin and punishment. By assuming the being of forgiveness—feeling now that sins are forgiven in the very act of awareness—you revoke the sentence your mind has imposed. The inner healer speaks when you align with the realization that forgiveness is an inner conversion, a shift of consciousness, not a decree from without. In that moment, the sense of separation dissolves and you are free, restored to the unity that never left you.