Obedience to the Inner King

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville's ear, the "king of Babylon" is not a distant empire but a dominant belief system you have chosen to serve in your imagination. The sword, famine and pestilence symbolize the inner pressures—fear, scarcity, despair—that arise when you oppose the conscious state you have identified as your ruler. The verse thus becomes a lesson in inner alignment: disobedience to your own I AM-identity invites the collapse you fear. When you identify with this outer king, you abdicate your real power; the inner self experiences its ruin as you dwell in a belief inconsistent with the I AM you truly are. The remedy is not defense but acceptance: reimagine yourself as already under the ruling presence of the I AM, the inner king who brings order and abundance. By assuming a state of fullness and invoking the feeling of the wish fulfilled, you override the fear of loss and exile. The verse thus becomes a guide to inward obedience, where your present experience reflects your inner allegiance to divine consciousness.