Captivity Of The Inner King

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the I AM of Neville Goddard, this oracle invites you to see Heshbon and Ai not as cities, but as states of mind. The call to howl and gird with sackcloth becomes an invitation to humility—the surrender of a self-image that believes it rules in separation from God. The daughters of Rabbah and the hedges evoke restless thoughts and emotions that pace the borders of awareness. When the king, and his priests and princes, go into captivity, it is the dethroning of the old ruling ideas—the pride, the fear, the habit-bound judgments—that kept you from true sovereignty. The message is not punishment but a clearing of the stage so the I AM may reign as your unconditioned presence. As you dwell in that awareness, you will find that the outward exile mirrors an inner shift: you are returning to a single, intimate reality in which imagination is the instrument by which reality is made.