One Flesh, One Mind

Neville's Inner Vision

Your question about divorce is really a question about the state you assume. In the beginning God created male and female as a unity of consciousness, not as separate lives awaiting a legal seal. When Jesus says they twain shall be one flesh, he reveals an inner fusion: two streams of thought, two impulses, harmonized in a single sense of I AM. To leave father and mother and cleave to your wife is not a geographic act but a mental turning; you abandon the old identification with separation and adopt the vision that separation is a fiction of fear. What God hath joined together is your inner union of opposite energies, brought into harmony by love and attention. Therefore the command is to guard that inner unity within your mind, and no external decree can sever it as long as you persist in the feeling that you are one. The moment you revise the inner scene to reflect that unity, the outer relationship follows as a natural expression of your consciousness.