Lamp of Inner Commandments

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this proverb, the 'father's commandment' and 'mother's law' become states of consciousness you accept into your own being. They are not external rules but inner dispositions—habits of attention—that you bind to your heart and tie about your neck as a constant reminder of what you have chosen to honor. When you walk in faith, that inner law leads your steps; in rest, it guards your slumber; upon awakening, it converses with your mind, training your imagination to discern truth. The lamp and the light are symbols of your own imagination functioning in alignment with a fixed stillness, an I AM awareness that knows itself as the source of all instruction. The reproofs of instruction become the corrective feedback your inner teacher gives to loose beliefs; through them you finally live the way of life you have assumed in consciousness. Therefore, to practice is to assume the state of one who already keeps these commandments, feeling them as present fact in your daily experience. Make of your mind a bound book of living law, and it will quietly govern the form of your days.