Self-Exaltation and Inner Kingship

Neville's Inner Vision

Adonijah’s outward coronation is a vivid symbol of the mind’s impulse to crown itself before the I AM has decreed. He stacks chariots, horsemen, and a retinue, imagining power as separate from divine alignment. The names scattered through the scene— Joab, Abiathar the priest, Nathan the prophet, Zadok, Benaiah—become inner characters: the loyalties of self-will versus the wiser counsel of the higher self. Adonijah excludes Nathan, Solomon, and the faithful—signaling a decision to rule by sensation and status rather than by inner knowing. The stone of Zoheleth and the feast are the sensory pageantry of a self-assumed throne. Neville teaches that such drama reveals a state of consciousness: you “call” your own throne by what you feel and pretend to be. To wake into true kingship, you must reenter harmony with the inner governor and revise the assumption that power comes from outward display. The crown already belongs to the I AM within you when you choose allegiance to the higher self.