Inner Judgment of Numbers 35:16-18

Neville's Inner Vision

Where the surface law speaks of iron, stones, and wood, I hear the inner image of thought that wounds. In Neville's terms, the act is not a distant crime but a state of consciousness: a moment when I identify with separation and project murder through any instrument of fear. The 'murderer' is the old self, a habit of thought that believes harm is possible and deserving. The decree that the murderer must die points to the necessity of a change of state—not punishment of another, but release of the old pattern from my mind. When I feel the impulse to hurt, I do not address the external event; I address the inner image that supports it. I revise by assuming the I AM is whole and that the other is an image within me that can be transformed, thus the impulse dissolves. By choosing a new feeling of unity, I disarm the mental weapon and awaken to a reality where life is maintained by love.