From Gutter to Crown Within

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville’s language, 2 Samuel 5:8 becomes a parable of your inner ascent. David is the I AM, the awakened awareness that rules the inner city. The gutter is the place of the forgotten, the so-called low self, where you have hesitated to confront your own fears. To 'get up to the gutter' and smite the Jebusites is to confront the habitual stories that have kept you from ruling your mind. The 'lame and the blind, hated of David's soul' are your rejected states—old limitations that you have disowned as unworthy of entry into your inner house. Yet the text declares the one who achieves this ascent shall be chief and captain—your higher self becomes ruler of the inner kingdom. The later line, 'the blind and the lame shall not come into the house,' becomes a reminder that, by deliberate assumption and feeling it real, you disallow such limitation from the seat of your consciousness. Your imagination alone writes the new monarch of your inner realm.