Vessels Of The Mind

Neville's Inner Vision

To the inner listener, the vessels stand as your faculties—faith, imagination, mercy, discipline—things you once offered to the world’s temple of power. When Nebuchadnezzar carries them to Babylon, you have allowed outer circumstance to call the shots, and your inner sanctuary wears a foreign crown. The record of Jehoiakim’s abominations in the book of kings is your mind’s archival proof that you identified with limitation; still, Jehoiachin’s reign signals a new center of gravity rising within you. Exile is the shift of attention, not a sentence; return is a deliberate reassertion of the I AM as ruler of your inner house. If you reinterpret these lines as inner law, you discover that all power resides in you, and the external scene merely reflects your present state of consciousness. You can revise by choosing a new king, a new alignment of values, and let the memory of past failures serve as warning, not conviction.