Inner Conquest of Mind

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the Neville lens, the verse is not about a battalion of soldiers, but a cleansing of your inner landscape. The 'fenced cities' are the stubborn keeps of belief you defend to keep your old self intact. When you refuse to let go, you build fortifications in consciousness; the command to smite them is a call to remove those limits from within. 'Felling every good tree' signals pruning attachments that shade your awareness of who you are in the I AM. 'Stopping all wells of water' points to interrupt the habitual streams of fear, doubt, or lack that feed the old pattern. And 'marrying the land with stones'—to mark and stall the fertile soil of new possibilities—releases you from automatic repeats. In Neville's practice, you do not resist people or events; you revise your own state. Assume your mind is already free: the old walls crumble, the wells are dried of false nourishment, and the soil becomes ready for a higher pattern. By the act of belief, you awaken; you experience your conditions changing in harmony with the new inner governor—your I AM, here and now.