Inward Peace, Outer Authority

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this verse the outer kings and authorities are not remote tyrants to be appeased, but symbols crossing your own interior landscape. Neville would say the whole world you call out there is a drift of your own I AM, and the names of rulers are ideas in your mind made tangible by your attention. When you assent to a state of consciousness in which perfect order, quiet, and honesty reign, you align with a living ruler—the I AM—that governs all experiences. By assuming that you live under wise, peaceful authority, you invite a quiet and peaceable life to follow in every circumstance. The godliness and honesty mentioned are not social rules but inner dispositions you refuse to abandon. Practically, you revise your scene until you feel the inner government you claim as true; the outer scene then reflects that inward order. This is not surrender to fate but assertion of your own creative, divine state.