Manasseh's Inner Realms

Neville's Inner Vision

Manasseh here represents a state of consciousness that has claimed dominion over segments of the inner country—its Issachar and Asher as faculties of understanding and blessing, Bethshean and Ibleam as memory and vision, Dor and Endor and the others as the ways of imagination, judgment, and will. The text speaks of “three countries,” a symbolic triplicity showing how the I AM can inhabit three major departments of the mind: perception, choice, and action. When you awaken to the certainty that you are the I AM, these inner lands are not conquered by force but awakened to life by your present awareness. The moment you assume that you are the ruler within, your inner weather changes; what was once scattered order reorganizes; what seemed foreign becomes intimate possessions of your covenant. This is not a history lesson but a practical invitation: your imagination is the soil, your feeling is the rain, and your inner consent is the sun that compels events to align with your inner state. You are not seeking God outside; you are awakening to the God within, who has already taken possession.