Inner Judgment in Mind's Court

Neville's Inner Vision

To the inner ear, the text speaks of your inner court: the king represents the I AM, and the demand of the Gibeonites mirrors a memory of harm you insist must be settled by external punishment. Saul's line and the place 'Gibeah of Saul' signify clinging to an egoic pattern tied to past deeds. When the king says, I will give them, you hear the moment when belief in punitive justice is entertained in consciousness. Yet the deeper truth is that all such dramas are the movement of your own awareness seeking alignment with a fixed law. The inner law, the LORD, is the higher power of forgiveness and release. By recognizing that you are the author of every scene, you can revise the meaning: you do not need a bell to toll for vengeance; you can acknowledge the past and redeem its energy by shifting your state of consciousness. As you do, the seven 'sons' dissolve into the quiet, and justice becomes a present, life-infused harmony rather than a ritual of doom.