The Inner Merchant of Worth

Neville's Inner Vision

Within you, Ezekiel's Dedan is not a distant trader but a function of consciousness—the you that buys into value by imagining it first. The line 'Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots' speaks of a mode of being that stocks the inner wardrobe with things that move you—clothes that suit a chariot, a symbol of swift, dignified motion in life. In Neville's terms, wealth and provision are not possessions in the world but states of awareness you cultivate: you imagine yourself as the merchant who supplies the vehicle of your life with the finest fabrics of belief. If you feel lack, you revise the act: assume you already wear the 'precious clothes' that enable your present action—confidence, clarity, momentum. Do not seek from without; the I AM fashions the outer world from within; the outer garment mirrors your inner assumption. The danger is to worship the garment rather than the inner reality; but the true lesson is to align your feeling with the truth that you are the consciousness that provides. When you accept yourself as the merchant, you command the chariot to move with grace and power.