Inner Righteousness Beyond the Law

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice how Moses points to a 'righteousness of the law,' a system where life is earned by keeping the commandments. In the temple of your mind, this is the old wind—an identity that is always measuring, always performing. Yet you, the I AM, are never bound to a calendar of duties. The life you desire is not secured by what you do, but by what you assume you are. The verse invites you into a simple, radical revision: shift your allegiance from the outward law to the inner law of consciousness. The 'man' who lives by those things is the man who believes his worth and his calendar of acts will save him. In Neville's world, that is the old dream dissolving. Your true righteousness is a state of awareness, a present-tense knowing that you are already the I AM. When you imagine from that state, life follows, not as a reward for works, but as a natural expression of being. The external code becomes a pointer, urging you to turn inward and claim the finished feeling of already being righteous by the imagination you dwell in.