Inner Purity vs Tradition

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice the Pharisees' complaint stands as a mirror of your own mind trying to control life by external rites. In Neville's psychology, the tradition of the elders represents a settled state of consciousness—the belief that purity arises from rules rather than from the I AM within. The disciples' lack of ceremonial hand-washing is not a crime against a rule but a sign that you have allowed your present state to interpret life through outward measures. Defilement, then, is not dirt upon the hands but the habit of defining yourself by appearances. The true law is the inner law: awareness who you are as I AM, the one imagining and thereby creating your world. When you revise your assumption to, 'I am pure because I AM,' you shift your feeling-sense from fear of judgment to certainty of being. Your actions then reflect inner cleanliness, not because you kept a ritual, but because your consciousness has embraced its own sovereignty. The page invites you to live from the inside out, trusting that imagination, properly used, is the only real cleanliness.