Inner Dukes of Esau

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville's psychology, the names and places are not historical markers but the inner map of your states. The dukes are your habits and dispositions ruling every sector of your awareness; the land of their possession is the field you live from in consciousness. Esau, the father of Edom, pictures the lower, sense-bound mind that believes in separation from the I AM. Yet the very list demonstrates an inner administration—many named rulers in different regions—showing you that you can alter the administration by shifting the governor. By recognizing that all these rulers inhabit your interior, you can decide which one is sovereign. When you revise, you do not conquer others; you revise your assumption, inviting a higher awareness to reside as the governor of your inner kingdom. The Kingdom of God within does not fight the dukes but harmonizes them under one I AM, so your life moves in unity rather than fragmentation. With this consciousness, you feel that the land is already yours and that your chosen duke—peace, love, unity—rules from within.