Bathsheba and the Inner Inquiry

Neville's Inner Vision

David's inquiry in the text reads like a scene in your own inner laboratory. The figure Bathsheba appears not as a person apart from you, but as a vivid image your awareness entertains. When you ask, 'Who is this?' you are really interrogating your state of consciousness. The line, 'the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite,' is the mind's inventory: names and roles that try to fix the image and give it power over you. In Neville's interpretation, the moment you identify the image as 'Bathsheba' you have already separated from the I AM, and the impetus to possess or control arises from a sense of lack. The fix is not to deny the beauty or drive, but to revoke it from its assumed reality by returning to the one presence that animates all: I AM. See that you are the sovereign, and that every 'person' in your imagination is an expression of your own inner state. When you revise the scene—claim that the I AM is the source and extent of all life—the impulse to act from fear or guilt dissolves. Purity and integrity are restored as you cease identifying with the image and awaken to your true self, the Imago Dei that never sins, only unfolds.