Inner Banquet, Inner Kingdom

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, the king is your ruling I AM, and the feasts are the movements of your awareness feasting upon itself. The display of riches is the recognition that wealth is an inner energy, not a purse; the power of Persia and Media is the habitual thoughts you entertain about control and status. When the king lays out many days of abundance, it is a prolonged attention given to the quality of your inner state. The later invitation to all people in Shushan the palace translates to embracing every facet of your being—great and small, noble and humble—within the field of your consciousness. The seven days of the garden-feast symbolize a complete cycle of nourishment: you are feeding the mind with praise, gratitude, and the sense of dignity inherent in your Imago Dei. This chapter invites you to realize that extravagance of outer event mirrors the richness of inner perception. By turning attention toward the I AM and revising lack into plenitude, you establish a kingdom where generosity flows from awareness to others, not from external conditions.