Inner Tribes of the Self

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the list of names, the Self is shown to contain every mode of consciousness. Each son represents a distinct state of awareness—Reuben the impulse, Simeon the judgment that divides, Levi the service of the holy, Judah the authority of kingship, Issachar the understanding of cycles, Zebulun the seafaring mind, Dan the judge, Joseph the dreamer, Benjamin the warm heart, Naphtali the swift wit, Gad the guardian, Asher the blessed abundance. Yet all belong to one Israel, and you are invited to recognize them as your interior landscape. When you stand in I AM—awareness—the twelve States are not rival tribes but harmonized facets of the same mind. Your imagination is the altar where they appear as one family, not fragments. The memory of separation dissolves as you acknowledge that the Self you are is the field containing all, and that these tribes answer to your present awareness, not to external histories. By this inner alignment, you become the actualization of unity you seek.