Inner Feast, Sacred Vessels

Neville's Inner Vision

Belshazzar’s feast is a vivid metaphor for a state of consciousness that seeks pleasure in appearances rather than truth. The golden and silver vessels, looted from a sacred temple, represent the higher faculties of the self—perception, judgment, and worship—now misused for display and intoxication. In Neville’s terms this reveals a mind taken with sensation, treating spiritual symbols as commodities. Yet the scene is not mere condemnation but an invitation to return to inner sovereignty. The true reality remains the I AM behind the scene, and when you yield to external pageantry you obscure your own kingly nature. The remedy is inward: refuse to let externals decide your worth, and imagine a returning of the vessels to their sacred purpose within your inner temple. By assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled that you rule from this inner realm, you awaken to the fact that imagination shapes the state you inhabit and, therefore, your life’s events.