Inner Legacy of Samson

Neville's Inner Vision

Judges 16:31 invites you to read Samson's burial as the inner rearrangement of your mind. The brethren and the house of his father symbolize the circles of belief and habit you carry; the burial between Zorah and Eshtaol marks your letting go of old dispositions and placing them in the silent field of your true being, Manoah's burying place. Yet the line that he judged Israel twenty years reveals the lasting power of a right mental state. In Neville's terms, events are inner movements; a life's 'kingdom' is established wherever your I AM rests in a definite assumption. When you decide that the strength you seek is already yours—in the present, as the I AM that you are—you release the energy to act in your world for a long, fruitful period. The twenty-year rule is the density of your conscious state becoming tangible in time. So the inner act of burial becomes the outward evidence of a mind fixed in the end its imagination has already imagined.