Inner Armies Of Issachar

Neville's Inner Vision

To the reader, this passage is not about external armies but the state of your own consciousness. The 'bands of soldiers' represent the disciplined habits of mind that defend a clear, confident dream. The numbers—thirty-six thousand, eighty-seven thousand—become symbols of the breadth and resilience of your inner life when you attend to the image you hold in I AM. 'Many wives and sons' signals the fruitful multiplication of impulses and desires that arise from a living belief; you do not suppress them, you organize them under one guiding vision. 'Their brethren among all the families' speaks of the unity of all your inner states—every facet of yourself rallied under one sovereign imagination. Providence and guidance appear as the inner alignment you sustain by imagination: as you persist in the feeling that your desired state is now real, your inner army marches to bring the appearance into form. The scene invites you to dwell in a certainty that your thoughts, feelings, and identifications march together toward completion.