Inner Merchants of the Soul

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the law of assumption, this verse is not about ancient traders but about your inner economy. Javan, Tubal, and Meshech are not distant nations but three recurring attitudes in your mind—greed, control, and the urge to accumulate. 'The persons of men' are the living qualities you have treated as currency—courage, trust, love—things you attempt to barter away for comfort, status, or safety. 'Vessels of brass' symbolize outer forms—wealth, appearances, institutions—that you prize as solid, durable, and secure. The 'market' is the private arena where you measure value by outward results rather than by truth. Recognize that you have, perhaps unconsciously, traded beings for things, and things for prestige, in a marketplace of separation. The remedy is the simple, radical shift: assume the I AM as the sole merchant of your consciousness. Let the currency become reverence, unity, and possibility; let every person be honored as an expression of the divine, not a commodity. When you align with this inner economy, abundance flows as a natural byproduct of a healed sense of self.