Inner Crown, Outer World

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the scene as a drama of your own inner state. The multitude you take away is not people but the crowd of yesterday’s beliefs about yourself. When your heart is lifted up by the idea that you have won, you cast down ten thousands of old fears and limitations outwardly, yet you are not strengthened by it because strength is not a trophy in the world, it is the awareness you awaken within. In Neville's terms, the king who exalts himself is a state of consciousness that believes it is separate from God, arms itself with outer victories, and then discovers that such power never enters the inner chamber. True power arises when you identify with the I AM, the inner ruler who needs no siege of men to prove its sovereignty. The imagined crowd bows to your new sense of being, not because you fought them, but because you stopped addressing yourself as the man who lacks and began addressing yourself as the I AM.