Galatians 3:1 Meaning Foolish Galatians

The bewitching is simple. People had seen for themselves how a settled inner conviction becomes an outer fact. Then they let that seeing slip and drifted back to trusting effort, rules, and other men's approval. That is the whole spell. To forget that your own assumption is the cause, and to hand the power back to circumstance, is to be foolish in the plain sense of the word.

Christ crucified before their eyes was not a scene on a hill. It was the pattern already shown to them: an idea pinned down, held as finished, fastened to feeling until it hardened into the world they walked through. They had watched imagination fulfill itself. The forgetting undoes the person, not the law. Consciousness is the one cause, and nothing outside it makes a life.