Inner Covenant Names

Neville's Inner Vision

Ezra 10:32–33 presents a roll call, not of geographies, but of states of consciousness within you. Benjamin, Malluch, Shemariah, and the sons of Hashum are not distant names; they are inner dispositions that rise and fall within your I AM. The register Ezra draws is a map of your mind returning to harmony—the unity that arises when every fragment acknowledges the one Covenant. When you feel restless, offended by a Hashum-like impulse, imagine you are listening to the roll call of your own heart and deliberately choose a higher state. Say to yourself: I am the unity that seals the covenant; I am the loyalty that binds all parts of me together. As you heartily assent, the feeling of separation dissolves, and the imagined crowd becomes a single, peaceful presence. The names become signals of your present state, and by consenting to the highest state you revise the past into an orderly present.