Offenses as Inner Awakening

Neville's Inner Vision

Offences are not something happening to you from without, but a movement within your own consciousness. The 'world' stands as a mirror of your inner states; when you find yourself offended, you are being asked to revise your mental equivalent. The line 'for it must needs be that offences come' points to a law of your own imagining—the inevitable surfacing of judgments and attachments you have not yet released. Yet the woe to 'that man by whom the offence cometh' indicates personal responsibility: you are the common creator of the offence you perceive. When you assume the state of the I AM, you see that what troubles you is a clue to shift your inner image, not to condemn others. By refusing to identify with the offense and by choosing a new feeling-tone—peace, forgiveness, and unwavering awareness—you lift the scene. The holy separation is not withdrawal from the world but a letting go of the false self that interprets events as real outside you. In this turn, the offence dissolves into wisdom and transformation.