Inner Unity, Outer Victory

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the verse, Ephraim and Judah are symbolical states of consciousness that have been at odds. The envy and vexation are inner attitudes of separation, the belief that parts of you are in opposition. When that inner division dissolves, the adversaries are cut off; the two halves of your mind cease to contend, and they move as one force. The graphic 'flying upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west' becomes the image of your unified self riding the burdens of fear and projecting victory to the world you once judged as hostile. By laying hands on Edom and Moab—outer conditions that represented constraint—you claim mastery over those conditions, and even the Ammon of others yields to your inner authority. In Neville's terms, the Kingdom of God is a present state you assume, not a prophecy you await. When you inhabit this oneness, deliverance follows as the natural result of your assumption and the feeling of already being what you desire. Your present consciousness becomes the map of your future.