Inner Conquest and Dispossession

Neville's Inner Vision

In the Neville sense, the map is your inner climate. Moab's border cities symbolize your entrenched self-ideas—who you think you are at the edge of your life. When Ezekiel speaks of opening the side and handing possession to the east with the Ammonites, he is describing a shift of consciousness: the protective boundary you defend is loosened, and other aspects of yourself step forward and take residence in that formerly defended region. The 'glory of the country' becomes the pride you wear as identity; to open that side is to let a larger power rearrange your inner landscape. The decree that Moab 'may not be remembered among the nations' is not punishment but the inner law of release: once the old borders drop from memory, you are no longer ruled by them in action. Providence and judgment are the gentle tug of inner causation—your I AM reorders itself and the outer scene follows. Exile and return occur within: you leave the old boundary and return, wider and more unity-present, to the one life you inhabit, the I AM that you truly are.