The Inner Ruler Emerges

Neville's Inner Vision

In your inner world, the house, city, elders, and upbringing are facets of consciousness bowing to a new ruling idea named Jehu. When they declare, we are thy servants and will do all thou bid, and we will not make any king, you reveal the moment you yield to a higher image and suppress the old king as sovereign. Jehu’s letter, If ye be mine, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by tomorrow this time, becomes a symbolic decree to prune away the old self. The seventy sons represent many aspects of former identities nourished by social conditioning—the great men of the city. The heads symbolize shedding those identities; Jezreel is the place within where the new order takes root, and tomorrow this time is the immediacy of realization when you stay aligned with the new ruler. By affirming this inner loyalty, the old self dissolves and the inner kingdom begins to reign.