Inner Queen of Esther

Neville's Inner Vision

Esther 1:10-11 shows not a history but a symbol of your inner life. The king is your waking awareness, merry with emotion, asking to parade a radiant inner state—Vashti, the queen of dignity and beauty—before the assembled princes of your world. The seven chamberlains are the seven faculties that serve in your mind’s presence: perception, memory, imagination, will, choice, feeling, and speech. When you give consent to the scene, you are inviting your entire being to acknowledge and display the truth of your inner grace. The moment becomes not a demand from without but a consent from within: you decree the crown royal is already yours; you are already seen as beautiful by the audience within. By selecting this queenly state, you release the impulse to seek approval in outer circumstances and instead re-establish your center in awareness. Practice repeating: I am the one who knows I am, and through me beauty appears in the world around me.