The Inner King's Shadow

Neville's Inner Vision

In the inner counsel of your mind, the king stands for a self-concept—pride, control, or separation—imagined as a sovereign ruler. The statement I have delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen becomes a clear sign: you have entrusted your old self to a belief larger than it, and so it is driven out by that belief's force. The strangers, the terrible of the nations, cutting him off, symbolize new, higher states of consciousness that sever the old shadow of power. On mountains and in valleys, his branches fall, his boughs are broken by the rivers of the land; the image shows the old self losing its vitality under the currents of awareness. And all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, meaning that when you revise, the external world reflects your new I AM. Judgment here is not punishment but an invitation to inward sovereignty, a turning away from a counterfeit king toward the living I AM within.