Vashti's Quiet Command

Neville's Inner Vision

Esther 1:19 appears as a mirror for the state you entertain. The king’s command that Vashti not appear again is not a demand upon a distant king; it is your awareness making a decision and sealing it in the law of your consciousness. If you accept that decree inwardly, you empower a new image to govern your life; the old condition yields its place to another, more suitable expression of your being. Neville's teaching would say: the outer arrangement testifies to your inner arrangement. The law cannot be altered by time or circumstance; it is the unerring moment you hold in imagination. When you imagine yourself as already possessing the dignity and secure presence you seek, you write the decree into your inner chronicles. Your present is simply the echo of that voluntary command. So, the banishment of Vashti becomes the removal of a stale image, and the passage of her estate to another becomes the blessing of a higher self.