Bowels of Inner Judgment

Neville's Inner Vision

To the I AM that you are, the chronicle is not about a distant monarch but about your own inner state. 'The Lord smote him in his bowels' is not a geographical event but a symbol of a belief that your life must pay for its errors. The 'bowels' are the seat of impulse and fear; the smiting is the inner judgment that follows ungoverned thoughts. The two years spoken of are the duration you allow a mental pattern to dominate your body and circumstances. When the king dies of 'sore diseases,' it is the death of that mental habit—the outer life mirrors an inner conclusion about powerlessness or retribution. The absence of a ceremonial burning indicates that rituals outside you cannot change the effect; change must occur inside the consciousness that imagines the scene. Your practice: recognize that you are the I AM, the author of every scene; gently revise the impression by choosing a new assumption, and feel it as real now. If you persist in that inner mood—the conviction of health, vitality, and endless supply—the body follows, and a new form of life will emerge.