Into Samaria: Inner Exile

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture the king of Assyria as a figure in your mind—an idea, a habit, a belief that announces the arrival of new powers into the inner city of Samaria, your center of ruling consciousness. The foreigners are not mere people of old; they are states of consciousness you have welcomed—desires, fears, and loyalties that take up residence where your original Israel, your true nature, has dwelt. When these dispositions settle, they occupy the spaces that once tended to align with the I AM, and the inner city seems overtaken by foreign customs. This is not a judgment but a demonstration of how imagination works: you can watch the movement without losing yourself. The Gospel of exile and return offers a path: you can revise, restore, and call back the inner inhabitants—the Israel within—by choosing to identify with the I AM and to dwell there in awareness. The moment you refuse to inhabit the role of a divided mind, you begin the return to dominion.