Inner Kingship Of Samuel

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture Samuel as your waking awareness, unsettled by the cry for an outer king. The people’s demand is not a historical event but a mirror of a mind seeking security outside itself. In Neville’s language, this is a state of consciousness insisting upon external control, while the I AM within remains untouched by the uproar. The LORD, in this inner reading, is not a person but the still, all-perceiving Presence of God that you are. Samuel’s displeasure signals the friction that arises when a thought desires governance apart from inner truth. When Samuel prays unto the LORD, the action is your own turning of attention from the restless surface to the fountain of inner life. The outer king you imagine as judge will appear only to the extent you have given it power in consciousness. By praying, by returning to the I AM, you authorize a new sovereign state—one ruled by insight, intuition, and love rather than fear or need. So revision: the inner king is your awareness in command, and your world follows that inward alignment, with imagination becoming reality.