Obedience in the Inner Kingdom

Neville's Inner Vision

Esther 1:16, through the Goddard lens, reveals that Vashti’s act is not merely a personal refusal but a state of mind broadcasting across every province. Memucan’s counsel is the inner watchman who says that any fragment of self-will unsettles the whole—an inner kingdom that cannot stand without the inward king's decree. In this reading, the king and the princes are the disciplined faculties of awareness; Vashti embodies a rebellious impulse that would break the alignment with divine order. The message is not a condemnation of a person but a law of consciousness: unity is maintained when each part answers to the same decree. The Kingdom of God within is the harmonization of all inner states; disobedience is a false belief that splits consciousness into many provinces. The event invites a revision: assume the one decree of the king within, and let the whole mind realign to the I AM. Then any external appearance reflects that inner reformation: obedience is clarity of being, not restriction.