Governors of the Inner Land

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Neville’s psychology, the land of Solomon represents your entire being, and the officers are the distinct states of consciousness you habitually entertain. Ahimaaz in Naphtali, Baanah in Asher and Aloth, Jehoshaphat in Issachar, Shimei in Benjamin, Geber in Gilead—these are inner faculties scattered across your mental territory, each attending its own duty. Yet the text’s final clause, that Geber was the only officer in the land, points to a single governing awareness—the I AM—that can quietly hold and coordinate all these movements. When you imagine yourself as merely the body or a collection of desires, you feel divided and exposed to outward circumstance. When you assume the role of the sole governor within, you invite Providence to move through every department as one coherent activity. The region names matter only as symbols for the habits and thoughts you tend to in daily life; by reinstating the I AM at the center, you render your inner world orderly, purposeful, and fruitful. Your life becomes the outward reflection of your inner conviction that you are one, wholly guided by awareness that imagines and thereby creates.