Timely Insight of Issachar

Neville's Inner Vision

To the one who reads these words, the 'times' Issachar understood are not out there in history but within the stream of your consciousness. The 200 heads are the many focal points of your attention that you've gathered and disciplined until they align behind a certainty: you now know what you ought to do. When you feel this inner knowing, the brethren—your other thoughts, your senses, your plans— naturally fall in line under your commandment, and action unfolds with ease. The verse does not celebrate cleverness but obedience: to remember that your inner awareness is the governor of your outward results. The true prophecy here is your present experience—feeling that you know the next right step and acting from that conviction. By this, the Kingdom of your aim becomes visible within your own experience, and the promise of wise, faithful action becomes your habitual state.