Inner Mercy Restores Self

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville’s vision, the captives and the acts described are not distant affairs of history but lightly veiled states of consciousness. The named men are the recognizable faculties of your mind—your imagination, your mercy, your sense of duty—rising up to restore harmony within. The spoil becomes the material impressions you have gathered in the field of life, and clothing, feeding, anointing, and carrying the feeble are inner acts of investiture: you clothe limitation with a new idea, feed lack with a confident faith, carry pain on the shoulders of steady attention, and anoint with the balm of affirmation. Jericho, the city of palm trees, is the image of inner plenty you enter when you refuse to abandon the awakened parts of yourself to distress. Returning to Samaria signals that this healed state is not a temporary visitation but a changed center of consciousness, ready to inhabit daily life. By assuming the end—the self already restored—you align your present sensations with the truth that mercy is how God works within you.