Inner Tribes, One Covenant

Neville's Inner Vision

Within you, the names Ephraim and Manasseh are not places but states of consciousness. Hoshea and Azaziah, Joel and Pedaiah, are not men so much as the attitudes and faculties you presently recognize and employ. The I AM is the currency of awareness, and every division you observe is really a movement of your inner life toward unity. The listing shows a settled order within your inner household: two tribes whose loyalty you are called to harmonize under the Covenant, the I AM. When you treat these inner states as real, as named and attended, you begin to feel the one consciousness behind them. The outward events of your life reflect your inner alignment; by acknowledging and accepting these dispositions you stop fighting them and allow their energy to flow in harmony. The key is not to change them by force but to revise the sense of self that contains them, to imagine that Hoshea and Joel are already at peace within your being. Then your experience moves toward unity, and the sense of division dissolves into covenant loyalty to your I AM.