Two Wives, One I Am

Neville's Inner Vision

Genesis 4:19 presents Lamech taking two wives, Adah and Zillah. In Neville's inner sense, the scene is not about people but about the mind’s habit of multiplying its pictures to feel complete. Adah and Zillah symbolize two inner streams—desire and duty, sweetness and strength—pulling for precedence within your consciousness. The outer act is but an image of a belief: that you must possess many things to satisfy the I AM that you are. The remedy, as Neville would insist, is to assume a different reality: you are already one I AM, and these polarities can be harmonized by the simple act of feeling it real that unity now. Begin by revising the thought, 'I am not lacking; I am complete in the one Presence.' Then, with eyes closed, imagine both streams bowing before the single, sovereign I AM and know that the one consciousness governs all impulses. When you dwell in that awareness, the sense of division softens, and your inner life aligns with wholeness, which in turn reveals itself in outward form.