Inner Judgment and Memorial

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the scene as a mirror of your inner life. The king of Ai is not a ruler out there but a stubborn belief you have mistaken for power in your own mind. Hanging him on a tree until eventide signifies the moment when a fixed judgment appears to hold your life in its grasp. Sunset and the command to remove the corpse teach that the old form has no true life in you once you acknowledge it as only a thought. The placement of the body at the entering of the gate points to the way perception gates your world: you enter your day through the belief you choose to entertain. By raising a great heap of stones, the inner witness marks the new order—consciousness that bears permanent remembrance of the right ruling: righteousness and justice within, the Kingdom of God inside. When you accept this, the 'king' loses his rod, and your life is governed by I AM, not by a vanishing external tyrant. The act becomes a ritual of inner decapitation of false power and the consecration of a new self.