Inner Covenant of the King

Neville's Inner Vision

Read as Neville would: you are not petitioning an external deity, but awakening a state of consciousness that has always stood on the throne. The line about David is a memory of your own I AM, the steadfast awareness that rules your inner kingdom. 'Keep with thy servant David my father' becomes an instruction to keep a royal standard of thinking—habitual faithfulness, discipline, and integrity—so that there is never a lapse into disbelief. The promise 'there shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel' translates to: there is always a ruler within you, an unbroken center of royal power that can seat itself wherever you turn your attention. When you petition that 'thy word be verified,' you are asking the inner 'Word' to prove itself true by your lived experience; you test your assumption until the feeling of the reality matches your wish. The clause about your children walking as you have walked becomes the discipline of transmitting this inner kingship to your expressions and generations, a continuous lineage of consciousness.