From Gallows to Banquet Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Esther 5:14 invites us to see a scene of outer retribution as an inner texture of consciousness. The gallows is not a throne; it is a belief the mind has erected that some part of life must be destroyed for peace to come. The 50 cubits high image shows how vividly we amplify a single fear into an imagined future. Mordecai represents a truth within you—perhaps fidelity to what is right—while Haman symbolizes the ego’s push to eliminate what it cannot control. The banquet that follows is the lure of the senses, the outward celebration of an internal triumph of fear. In Neville’s key, you are both viewer and author of this drama; you can choose to shift the state, not the world. The king becomes your I AM, the watchful awareness that can decree: this scene is finished, this fear dissolved, this day of judgment turned into harmony. When you assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled, you erase the gallows and invite a banquet of peace. The moment you revise the scene within, your inner court seals the order that Mordecai remains, and the whole pageantry aligns with your true, eternal self.