Inner Order, Outer Authority

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this text, the 'higher powers' are not distant rulers but the conditions of your own consciousness—habits, beliefs, duties, and the sense of order you accept as true. God is the I AM, the awareness that makes you awake to possibility, and the powers that be are the visible expression of that inner order. To resist them is to pretend a rupture between your inner state and the world; such resistance is not punishment from above but a self-imposed breaking of harmony. When you assent to the inner ordinance, you are consenting to the divine pattern already laid out within you. Providence becomes your lived experience as you stop arguing with circumstance and begin inhabiting the truth that you are the author of your life through the state you assume. The outer world then mirrors your clear, obedient consciousness. Obedience, in this sense, is not servile compliance but alignment with the creative law of your own soul.