Presumption and the Inner Law

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the light of the I AM, Numbers 15:30–31 speaks not to external punishment but to the inner states of consciousness. The heart that acts presumptuously is the self that refuses the inner Word and trusts in its own will, thereby reproaching the LORD within. This is not a judgment imposed from outside, but a spiritual mechanism: when you despise the word of the LORD in your mind, you sever your sense of unity with the Life that animates you, as if you were cut off from your own people. The land and the stranger are inner dispositions—habits of thought and the feeling of being apart from the Whole. The consequence you fear is the felt absence of life because you have refused to let the Word govern your imagination. Yet the remedy is immediate and simple: align your inner state with the Word as law by an act of imagination. Accept the Word as true now, and let the I AM authorize your thoughts. When you do, the perceived cut-off dissolves and you return to the community of your true consciousness.