The Healing Touch Within

Neville's Inner Vision

In Matthew 8:1-4, the leper symbolizes a state of consciousness—fear, separation, the sense of unclean identity. His plea, “If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean,” is an assumption of power he believes lies outside him. Jesus’ reply, “I will; be thou clean,” represents the I AM within you affirming the inner truth. The healing arises not from a physical act alone but from an inner decision, a felt-in-now assumption that the self is clean and complete. The touch is the symbolic act of the imagination engaging the subconscious to reorder reality according to your dominant state. The prohibition to tell no man preserves the sacredness of the transformation, preventing outer noise from disturbing the inner certainty; the directive to present himself to the priest and offer the gift Moses commanded becomes outward testament to an inward change, a sign that the law recognizes the new state. Ultimately, the story embodies the Neville principle: healing is instantaneous where consciousness is assumed in fullness and lived as present fact, expanding from inner to outer reality.