Inner Commandments of Wisdom

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, the 'I' in the text is the very consciousness you are. When you hear 'For I was my father's son,' understand your state is born of a prior state of awareness—tender and beloved by your own mother, the creative power within you. The father, the authority, is your inner legislation: let your heart retain these words, keep the commandments and you shall live. This is not outward obedience, but alignment of your inner dispositions with truth. To 'get wisdom' is to assume the state of wisdom, to hold it in your imagination until it becomes your living fact. Do not forget, do not decline from the words of my mouth; because repetition of the vision tightens the nerve of your habit. 'Forsake her not'—do not abandon wisdom, for she will preserve you; 'love her, and she shall keep thee'—tender care follows sustained attention. 'Wisdom is the principal thing' implies the priority of the inner principle over surface appearances; therefore, keep wisdom before all you intend to be and do. Your result follows your inner keeping and your faith in this inner order.