Inner Dukes of Edom: A Neville Reading

Neville's Inner Vision

Genesis 36:43 presents not a geography but a psychology: Edom is the separated self, and Esau the father is the root of that state. The 'dukes' are inner authorities—habits of mind that rule your inner realm. 'In their land of possession' speaks of a belief that you own your experiences, a feeling of possession and boundary; the land is your field of attention. The closing list suggests the self's governance by many minor rulers, signaling a completed self-conception. Neville's method asks you to notice that the true 'I' is the I AM, the awareness that persists beneath the changing content of mind. By imagining the I AM not as a distant deity but as your living sense of 'I', you can revise each duke: reassign leadership from lack, fear, and possession to unity, covenant loyalty, and a felt sense of oneness within the inner commonwealth. The aim is to dissolve Edom's separation by choosing a new allegiance to the one Life and to act in your imagination as its benevolent ruler. In practice, you can call forth a new inner government, with the I AM as sovereign and the dukes operating in harmony.