Inner Reign of Pride

Neville's Inner Vision

This passage is a parable of the mind, where the father represents the old self, the house the established identity, and the concubines the lingering habits kept to shore up that order. Absalom’s ascent is the rising thought that asserts inner authority by acting from those old premises; the rooftop is the heightened awareness where the entire field of mind is visible. The crowd called Israel mirrors your judgments about what others think, and the act is not about sex but about claiming inherited power over your story. In Neville terms, true power is not conferred by outward acts but invoked by an inner state you choose to inhabit. If you declare, with feeling, 'I am the I AM within,' you displace the need to prove yourself and invite the world to reflect that inner crown. The invitation: revise the sense of self from fear to dominion, and watch the outward situation rearrange to embody that inner certainty.