Inner Kingdom of Esther 2:3

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, the king is the I AM present in you, and the provinces are the varied states of consciousness you inhabit. The officers are the faculties you call forth to steward your inner life, and the virgins represent the pure, ready dispositions of your mind, unprogrammed by fear or limitation. Shushan the palace becomes the temple of awareness where these dispositions are gathered and brought into order. The house of the women is the chamber of receptive feeling, where perception abides; Hege, the keeper of the women, is the disciplined guard of your inner beliefs and assumptions. The purification rites point to the simple act of cleansing mental atmosphere, renouncing old identities and aligning with the reality of your true Presence. The verse invites you to centralize your inner kingdom: call back your scattered states, purify them in imagination, and present them before the I AM until such Presence is the lived atmosphere of your life. Do not seek purification as an external event but as a revision of consciousness whereby the Presence becomes your natural state.