The Inner King Within

Neville's Inner Vision

To the reader, Samuel represents the inner voice of truth, and the people’s demand for a king is the mind's misperception that it lacks a ruler within. The cry, 'we will have a king over us,' reveals the belief in a separate self controlling life. 'That we also may be like all the nations' signals the longing to identify with the world’s power rather than with the one power within. The king who 'judges us, and goes out before us, and fights our battles' is not a mortal sovereign but the passive belief that life’s battles are fought externally. Neville would say that awakened consciousness already rules; the I AM sits enthroned; the battles are inner encounters with fear, habit, and doubt. When you claim the I AM as your sole sovereign, you reverse the story: you stop waiting for another to appear and assume the feeling of ruling from within. The moment you crown the inner king, external events begin to rearrange to reflect your new state of awareness.