Solomon's Inner Fortresses

Neville's Inner Vision

Solomon’s outward campaign is but a symbol of the inner campaign every consciousness undertakes. Hamathzobah represents the stubborn conditions of lack and limitation that stand as inner weathered forts within the mind. The act of going forth and prevailing is your I AM entering a new state and refusing to yield to the old sense of bondage. Tadmor, a wilderness city, is your mental center where imagination is set to build, and the store cities are the habits and treasures you enshrine in revision of consciousness. When you read that Solomon built them in Hamath, hear it as the inner act of setting a scene in which your desires are already inhabited, secured, and defended by the living awareness that you are the builder of reality. The Kingdom of God is not a distant land but the reign of your present awareness; every fortress you erect within becomes a literal outer manifestation so long as you remain in the feeling that what you imagine is already done. Thus, by assumption and feeling, you convert the wilderness into Tadmor and turn store cities into settled wealth.