Inner Kings in Captivity

Neville's Inner Vision

In the inner theater, the king and his princes are your ruling beliefs, habits, and stories about yourself—the throne of consciousness from which you think you are acting in the world. The prophecy of captivity is not a doom of history but a summons to revise your sense of who rules you. When the LORD speaks, he names the awareness that you are not the mere evidence of past kings; you are the I AM that witnesses the drama. The exile of these rulers signals that you have been identifying with a ruling structure that can no longer govern you. To hear this is to feel the truth that you can interrupt any scene by shifting your state of consciousness. When you accept that the king and princes have been carried away by a larger power—the power of your own invincible imagination—you begin to reset the inner kingdom, inviting new promises and a return that is really a return to what you have already imagined.