Inner Counsel and War

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville's light, this verse is a drama of inner alignment. Ramoth-Gilead is a crossroads within consciousness where we choose which voice commands our flight: the inner I AM or the clamor of outward counsel. Joram’s stepping to war represents a habitual identification with external authority, the belief that reality bends to popular or familial direction rather than to inner discernment. The defeat by the Syrians is the psychic consequence of yielding to a lower, borrowed strategy rather than to the sovereign, inner guidance. When you identify with the I AM—your true, observing consciousness—you stop swapping the day-to-day counsel of others for the self-knowledge that you are the source of your world. The kingdom of God, consistent with Neville, unfolds not through conquest but through a disciplined inner assumption. The event becomes a mirror: if you revise your state of mind, the scene (your outer circumstances) shifts to reflect that new state. Your power is the quiet, unwavering conviction that you are led by divine wisdom within you now.