Inner Gate of Pride

Neville's Inner Vision

All that unfolds in Esther is a drama of consciousness. Haman's outward triumphs—wealth, the multitude of children, and royal favor—do not heal the inner ache. When he spots Mordecai at the gate and the old pride rises in him, the disturbance is not in Mordecai but in the image Haman has taken to be himself. The pride that must march is the sense that life comes from forms, from rank, from others bowing to you. Boasting to friends and wife only confirms a mind clinging to a changing surface. The gate of the king represents perception; the banquet is the feast of ego. The remedy is not to overthrow Mordecai but to revise the state of consciousness behind the scene. See Mordecai as the steadfast Self within you that cannot be moved by appearance. Abide in the I AM, crown of true dignity, and let the scene dissolve into quiet assurance. When you revise your state, the external drama loosens its grip and a higher order of life begins, guided by inner knowing rather than outer showing.