Leprosy and the Inner King

Neville's Inner Vision

Uzziah's leprosy is not a literal sickness but a story of a state of consciousness that believes itself separated from its source. The house of the LORD signifies the inner sanctuary where the I AM dwells as you, the living awareness. When this awareness buys into the idea of separation, the king is cut off, and the rule of the mind devolves into a pale imitation, with Jotham - your inner governor - left to maintain appearances and judge conditions from a distance. Yet the truth you are to know is that you are the I AM, and the house cannot be closed to its own life. The cut-off state is only a mistaken assumption in the imagination; it can be revised by turning attention back to the awareness that never left the temple. In that turning, the kingdom returns to its rightful throne, not through external conquest but through the inward alignment of thought and feeling with the one Life that animates all.