Inner Spoils of Consciousness

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, the text speaks of spoil and ransom not to tell you of foreign armies, but to wake you to the armies of your own mind. Sheba, Dedan, and Tarshish are the settings and conditions you stock in your consciousness—the measures and merchants by which you evaluate worth. When they cry, 'Are you come to take a spoil?' they are the last doubts saying, 'Will lack come and rob you?' In Neville’s light, the world you call external is only the image your I AM projects. The invader is your old habit of limitation, and the taken spoil is the reassertion of a belief you outgrow. The remedy is simple: assume the state that you desire already exists; feel it as present fact; bless the merchants as your allies who preserve your wealth by cooperating with your new assumption. As you dwell in the feeling of being abundantly provided, the entire scene shifts—no more guardians on the watch, only the quiet confidence of the I AM, gathering the great spoil of peace and power from within.