Esther 5:10-14 Inner Dominion

Neville's Inner Vision

To the healing eye of faith, Esther 5:10-14 is a portrait of inner states, not merely a page of court pomp. Haman’s glittering surface—wealth, offspring, royal promotion—exists as the color of a mind enthroned by ego. He places Mordecai at the gate in his consciousness as an inner obstacle to the self he worships. Zeresh and the others echo outer advice that feeds fear, urging a gallows to secure domination. Yet the only real action occurs within: power belongs to the I AM, the awareness that simply is, when it is not yoked to need or domination. When Haman declares that all this avails him nothing as long as Mordecai sits at the gate, he exposes a single inner belief—identification with an image rather than with the I AM. The cure is to revise that belief, to withdraw identification with wealth or rank as measure of worth, and to abide in the state of I AM—calm, abiding, unthreatened. Your inner gate and the kingly awareness that sits above it are one; let the gate be quiet, and the gallows lose their power.