The 6th commandment, “Thou shalt not kill,” takes on a deeper psychological meaning through the lens of Neville Goddard.
Neville didn’t see this as only physical harm. He taught that scripture is about consciousness, so this commandment is really about what you are doing within.
You “kill” every time you:
Destroy someone in your imagination
Hold onto resentment, anger, or the desire for revenge
Replay scenes where others hurt you or where you hurt them
Define someone as bad, hopeless, or against you
In Neville’s teaching, what you accept as true in imagination becomes your reality. When you mentally condemn someone, you are sustaining a version of them that will continue to appear in your world.
But this goes even deeper.
You are not just killing others, you are killing states:
Peace
Love
Harmony within yourself
Whatever you destroy within cannot live in your experience.
The real practice is not to condemn, but to revise. See people differently. Give them a new role in your story. The moment you stop feeding a negative state, it dies, and something new can take its place.
So the commandment becomes clear. Do not destroy life in imagination, because imagination is the only reality.