Five Inner Kings Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Genesis 14:2 places five kings in alliance against Bera, king of Sodom. In Neville's terms, these kings are not distant rulers of a geography but states of consciousness you have permitted to govern you. Bera and the others—Birsha, Shinab, Shemeber, and the king of Bela—stand for parts of your mind: memory, appetite, pride, fear, and habit you have accepted as authority. The war described is the inner agitation of a mind clinging to an old pattern, not a distant battlefield. Yet you are the I AM, the sole sovereign of your reality. When you imagine yourself as the creator, you reverse the scene: the five kings bow, because the impression of their power dissolves in your awareness. The Kingdom of God is not a place on earth but an inner government you establish by one sustained assumption: I AM the ruler of all conditions in my consciousness. The moment you persist in feeling and acting from that I AM, you rewrite the scene, restoring peace to the land and drawing it into alignment with your desired state. The five kings become confirmations of your inner freedom, not rulers over you.