The Inner King Returns

Neville's Inner Vision

Let us reinterpret the scene as a drama within your consciousness. The men of Israel and Judah are not two distant peoples but two aspects of your own mind, each insisting it has the right to bring back the king. The king in this story is David’s return, but in your practice it stands for the I AM—the sovereignty of awareness at the center of your being. The claim that 'we have ten parts in the king' is a map of the many mental states—memory, pride, habit, need for approval—each pressing its own authority. The fierce words reflect the ego’s resistance to being ruled by a unity that includes all voices. Neville would say the real question is: who is king here—the divided parts or the unconditional I AM? When the Jordan-crossing occurs in your imagination, the awareness must reign; unity arises not by annihilating the parts but by recognizing they are kin to the same king. Thus the inner quarrel dissolves into harmony as you dwell in the I AM governing all.