Sound in the Mulberry Trees

Neville's Inner Vision

Now, in the inner sense, the valley is your current state of consciousness, and the Philistine host is fear pressing upon your awareness. David’s question and God’s answer reveal a law of inner timing: do not go up after them; turn away and prepare against them from a different inner angle. The mulberry trees symbolize the subtle movements of imagination—the inner gusts and rustlings that precede outward action. When the verse says, and it shall be, when thou shalt hear a sound of going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt go out to battle, know that the sound is not heard with the outer ear but felt as a conviction in your I AM. God is gone forth before thee means your inward state has already moved the direction of fate; the victory is secured by alignment, not by brute effort. So you revise your sense of threat, stand still in awareness, and let the inner signal authorize the next step. The battle then becomes a demonstration of consciousness, not a clash of circumstance.