Inner Crown, Inner Kingdom

Neville's Inner Vision

In the theatre of your mind, the crown is the I AM, the inward sovereignty by which all outward events bow. When you read David's act of placing the crown upon his head, you are invited to take sovereignty over your own awareness, to feel that you are the one who 'wears' the authority of attention. The gold and precious stones are the weight and clarity of realized consciousness—worth you can carry without fear. The spoil is the abundance that flows from a mind trained to dwell in that center. The campaigns against Ammon and the later war with the Philistines are not battles against peoples, but shifts within the believer’s mind: old pictures of lack or fear cut away like saws and iron harrows, so that what remains is a solid, focused I AM leading the field. Returning to Jerusalem signals the complete cycle—you return to your inner city, newly strengthened and free. The giant-slayer moment shows that large obstacles exist only as beliefs until consciousness commands another order.