Inner King, Mercy Prevails

Neville's Inner Vision

The king represents the I AM, the seat of awareness. The banquet of wine is a trance of sensory pleasure that veils truth; anger arises when something unsettled in consciousness is confronted. The garden is the quiet inner place where thoughts move; Haman kneels to Esther—the inner queen, wisdom and mercy—asking for life, while the king's verdict stands over him. The line that 'evil determined against him by the king' is your belief that a harsh judgment has been already placed upon a thought or image in you. Yet the key is that this is all within the I AM and can be revised by a new assumption: that mercy and justice are unified in my I AM, and that the inner king now acts mercifully toward the fear or issue. Esther represents the divine feminine principle of discernment and mercy within you; Haman is a hostile mental habit or fear that would destroy you. When you, in imagination, assume the king's mercy—your inner ruler decides favor—then that imagined act dissolves the threat. The past is only a memory of consciousness; the present can be rearranged by a single, steady assumption.