Inner Return From Exile

Neville's Inner Vision

Hadad’s petition to Pharaoh is not a geographical wish but the inner movement of consciousness seeking its natural country—the Kingdom of God within. Egypt represents a state of mind bound by circumstance and the sense of separation; the news of David’s death and Joab’s demise signals the fall of a former order—an old dream dying. When Pharaoh asks what he lacks, the answer 'Nothing' unmasks the illusion: there is no real lack in the I AM. The true country is the awareness that never left home. To depart in any wise is to yield to the inward recognition that Providence has ever guided you back to your own kingdom. In this light, Hadad’s return is your own return to you, a shift in the inner weather that rearranges outer events to match the established state of consciousness. So the verse invites you to remember: you are already in the land of your being; you only awaken to it by the conviction that nothing is missing and that you may walk forth from exile into the sovereignty of your mind.