Guarding Your Inner Leaven

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville's ear, the 'leaven' is not bread but a quality of thought you permit to rise inside you. The Pharisee leaven is legalistic certainty dressed as purity, a mental rigidity that says 'this is the way it must be' and judges others from a self-made standard. The Herod leaven is the appetite for worldly power, doubt dressed as practicality, the fear that quiets inspiration and banners success as life. Both are inner movements, not distant men; they are states you unconsciously entertain. The moment you declare, 'I am the I AM,' you awaken as the observer of thought, and you may revise these states by assuming a higher one: truth, faithfulness, unity with the I AM. When doubt or judgment arise, replace it with a fresh imaginative act: see yourself already aligned with holiness, pure intention, and integrity, and feel the reality of that inner state until it dominates outward appearances. By choosing the end in imagination and dwelling there, the leaven loses its rise, and your world unfolds in harmony with truth.