Solomon's Inner Coronation

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this narrative, the ceremony is not history but a pattern of your inner life. The figures—Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet—are the wise faculties of your mind, the inner names for knowing and anointing. Benaiah stands with the servants of your lord, representing the disciplined thoughts that accompany you as you move toward the well of Gihon—the fountain of life within. Solomon, riding on David's mule, is your dominant state of consciousness, the sense of royal authority that you cultivate by repeated acts of imagining and feeling. When Zadok and Nathan pour oil, the inner I AM proclaims a new sovereignty over your inner kingdom, and the trumpet sound is your own clear affirmation that this is not a future event but a present reality you are choosing. The Kingdom of God, in this sense, is the felt sense of authority already established in you, awaiting your assent. The outer ceremony signals what occurs in consciousness: a revision and acceptance that you are the king who governs your thoughts and experiences.