The Inner Treasury Questioned

Neville's Inner Vision

In the Neville reading, the scene is not about kings and invaders but about the state of consciousness that calls wealth into appearance. The visitors from Babylon symbolize the gaze of awareness that comes from beyond your present sense of self, asking What have you shown? Hezekiah's confession that All the things that are in mine house have they seen exposes how the mind projects value onto externals, mistaking signals of security for the self’s essence. Yet the inner truth remains: the treasures are not merely gold and silver but signs of a living I AM, a perception in which you are conscious of your own adequacy. When you interpret the incident as a test of your inner wealth, you can shift from fear of loss to a disciplined inner gaze. The remedy is to withdraw your sense of lack by assuming a state of abundance in consciousness. See yourself not showing things to others but acknowledging that you exist as the very act of perceiving, the I AM that knows no scarcity. In this light, the Babylonian question becomes a prompt to revise the story you tell about wealth.