Inner Kings, Outer Judgment

Neville's Inner Vision

Isaiah’s 'host of the high ones' and 'kings of the earth' are not distant rulers; they are the prideful thoughts and controlling impulses seated on the throne of your mind. In Neville’s terms, God is the I AM within you, and imagination is the instrument by which you create your reality. The verse shows that when the inner court is governed by egoic dominance, those powers are gathered and imprisoned—an inner constraint that feels like outer circumstance. Yet the imprisonment is not permanent; after many days you are visited by the Self that rules from stillness. This visitation is your awakening to the one state you truly are: awareness itself. When you revise your state—no longer entertaining fear or triumph over others, but knowing you are sovereign in peace—the outer world follows. So practice assumes the feeling of untroubled sovereignty, and persist in that vision until the 'kings' bow to your inner government. The inner king’s return dissolves the prison, and life responds with harmony that proves your state.