Inner Death of the Old King

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider Saul and the armour-bearer as symbols of a state of consciousness clinging to a restricted kingly ego. When the outer supports fail, you do not mourn the loss of a person, but the silent surrender of the old identification. The I AM within remains untouched, and the death of Saul is the moment when the outer identity yields to a greater inner sovereignty. The armour-bearer’s act is the natural response of a mind that discovers its reliance on fear and status is gone. In truth, the kingdom of God is not a throne in a city but the awareness that you are the ruler of your own inner realm. The dying of Saul clears the ground for the true king to arise within, not by force but by a quiet revision: you shift allegiance from a worldly image to the I AM, and your inner movements align with a higher law. The fear, the despair, the sense of loss are simply signals to withdraw identification from the old form and to dwell in your pure awareness, the eternal king.