Inner Kingship and Disguise

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice that the scene is not about outward armor but about inner center. Ahab seeks security by changing appearance; Jehoshaphat appears in royal robes, yet both are playing masks on the stage of consciousness. The captains follow the illusion they are seeing a king, showing how identification with form draws attention and movement in the world. The real battle is within: the I AM that you are, not the person you think you are. When you 'disguise' your true nature with beliefs, you invite external forces to challenge the persona, and you may be emptied of the sense of self, until you remember you are the king without disguise. The turning point—when the captains realize it is not the king and withdraw—becomes a parable: when your attention ceases to identify with the shifting image and returns to the I AM, the chase dissolves. Your practice is to adopt the feeling that you exist as perpetual awareness and that all scenes are movements within that awareness. The outer world then reorganizes to reflect your unchanged kingship.