Inner Cleansing of Psalm 51:7-9

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville Goddard's language, the hyssop is a symbol of inner awareness. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean becomes a decisive act of identifying with the pure I AM. Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow is a felt renewal: I am the immaculate Self that never sinned because sin exists only in memory within consciousness. Make me to hear joy and gladness translates to shifting perception so that joy arises from within, not from external circumstance; the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice refers to the collapsing of former beliefs under truth, now revived as vitality in this new state of awareness. Hide thy face from my sins and blot out all mine iniquities is the inner renunciation of the past; when I assume the state of forgiveness, the memory of error dissolves. The Psalm becomes a map for inner purification: awaken to your essential self, adopt a new state, and dwell there until your world reflects this realized life.