Proselyte of Inner Light
Matthew 23:15 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Matthew 23 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verse condemns scribes and Pharisees who zealously recruit converts, showing that outward schemes can leave both the converter and the converted in inner separation. It flags accountability for misusing influence and reminds us that true transformation begins within.
Neville's Inner Vision
Here the scribes and Pharisees are not distant men but a restless mind-state that seeks to control others by outward law. They roam the interior sea of imagination trying to make one proselyte to their form, believing salvation lies in conformity. But when the hearer is formed in that mold, he becomes twofold more the child of hell than themselves, for he inherits the same sense of separation masked as virtue. The true conversion is a turning of your own attention to the I AM, a recognition that you are awareness, not deed or rule. When you attempt to reform another by force of doctrine, you project your own lack of peace and forget that all souls awaken according to their inner timing. The inward law is simple: assume the feeling of already-being the wish fulfilled—that you and the other are one in the I AM. In that assumption, the outer reflects your inner unity, and the conversion you seek appears as your own awakening, not as another's obedience.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and declare: I AM the I AM, and the other is already one with me. Practice revising the impulse to reform into embodying inner peace and watch the outer world reflect your alignment.
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