Inner Births of Kings in Jerusalem

Neville's Inner Vision

View the list as a chorus of inner states, not a genealogical record. In Neville's terms, Jerusalem is your sanctuary of consciousness where the I AM rules. The names are not people outside you but qualities arising in your own mind—births of attention, wisdom, governance, and grace. Shammuah, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, Elishama, Eliada, Eliphalet become inner energies that answer to your awareness. Each birth signals a movement of consciousness toward the realized kingdom: Shammuah your listening discernment; Shobab a surging life; Nathan the prophetic voice within; Solomon the ruler of peace; Ibhar and the others the various aspects of character and activity. When you acknowledge that the 'sons' are names within, you place yourself in the presence of God—the I AM—as the one who births them. The outer history of kingship becomes an inner ceremony: the inner city is where God dwells, and your present awareness is the birthbed of a restored kingdom. Practice this as you would a revision: affirm that these qualities already live in you and let the feeling of their realness saturate your mind.