Ezra's Inner Magistrates

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Neville's imagining, this verse speaks not of civil appointment but of the governance of consciousness. The line 'after the wisdom of thy God that is in thine hand' means you hold in your awareness a living, divine wisdom you can exercise. Set up inner magistrates and judges who may judge all the people beyond the river—the parts of you beyond the surface, the subconscious and the unexamined. These are your discernment faculties: they separate truth from illusion, they measure thoughts by the divine law you know in the core of your being. The instruction to teach ye them that know them not points to educating your hidden self, to bring it into alignment with the law rather than reaction. Your task is to assume that this inner government already exists and functions; revise any sense of limitation by feeling that the law governs every act of your life. When you live from this inner court, appearances yield to the truth of Being, and your outward world follows the order you impose inwardly.