Inner Covenant of Purity

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine the line as a statement of inner boundary, not a social prohibition. In Neville’s language, the soul is a state of consciousness, and ‘sinners’ and ‘bloody men’ are inner dispositions—guilt, cruelty, fear, retaliation—that you would not let into the sanctum of your awareness. The psalmist asks that his inner life not be gathered into those states, but kept in the light of the I AM, the one consciousness that animates every breath. When you refuse to identify with the violence or condemnation of others, you stop drawing the drama of guilt into your own experience. You are not condemned, you are simply re-positioned by the awareness that your reality flows from the I AM you call God. The words become a deliberate revision: I am not identified with the thoughts that harm; I am aligned with the pure, life-affirming principle within. By choosing this inner separation, you discontinue being shaped by 'bloody' actions, and you revise your sense of self toward harmlessness, truth, and divinity active in you now.