Inner Law and Sin Revealed

Neville's Inner Vision

To me, the law is not an external judge but a mirror within the mind's sea. When the verse speaks of not coveting, it does not accuse me; it reveals the boundary of my present state, a signpost pointing to where I still believe I lack. Sin, in this light, is the illusion of separation from the I AM, a mis-timing of attention that makes desire seem to rule me rather than reveal that I AM the sovereign of my world. The law exposes what I have accepted as absence, so I may revise my inner state to the knowing that I am already that which I seek. By seeing that the 'not' marks an imagined gap, I can reverse the equation: I am the one who writes the law within my life. When I assume the feeling of the presence and completion of God within, the impulse to covet subsides, not by force, but by inhabiting the higher state of awareness where it has no footing. The inner law thus becomes my guide back to the truth of I AM.