Horns of the Altar: Inner Refuge

Neville's Inner Vision

Adonijah's fear at the throne is your own mind reacting to the moment when the I AM becomes aware of a higher authority within. The horns of the altar are not a place of escape but a point of contact where the mind can bow to a nobler decree. When Adonijah pleads that the king swear mercy, he is voicing the insistence of the old self for a postponement of consequence; in you, that is the stubborn belief that the past must control the future. Solomon's reply: 'If he will show himself a worthy man, there shall not an hair of him fall' is the law of your inner governor: virtue conditions grace. The moment the inner state recognizes the higher standard, the outcome is revised; judgment only happens in mind where the lower self remains unproved. When Adonijah is brought down and bows to Solomon, you glimpse the truth: the inner governor makes the outer world conform to the unquestioned reality of your state. Dwell in the I AM now, and mercy becomes your automatic response to every situation.