Oathless Inner Covenant

Neville's Inner Vision

In the saying, the inner law is revealed: your words are not mere sounds but expressions of your state of consciousness. The old injunction against swearing points to a deeper fact: truthfulness begins inside, where you acknowledge a single reality—your I AM, your continuous awareness. Neville would tell you that ‘perform unto the Lord thine oaths’ means align your outer promises with the fidelity of the I AM you know yourself to be. When you imagine you are the kind of person who always keeps faith with your word, you are not placating a distant deity; you are settling your own inner weather. If you fear breaking a promise, you are simply confronting a hidden belief that you are not yet that state. Do not strive externally to keep an oath; revise the belief to the already existent truth that you are truth in action. Feel the satisfaction of fulfilled word as a present sensation in consciousness. Your life then reverberates with reliable actions because your inner state is coherent, and oaths become natural markers of that coherence rather than battlements to defend.