Inner Decree of Judges 21:10-11

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, this passage is not a record of outward conquest but an inner decree of consciousness. The 'congregation' is the mind’s many states; the twelve thousand valiant men symbolize the totality of my convictions. The command to destroy Jabesh-gilead represents the moment I dissolve old beliefs that feed fear, separation, or grievance. The directive to annihilate every male and every woman who lay with a man becomes a symbolic act of uprooting attachments still clinging to the old story of lack. Judgment here means accountability: I scrutinize thoughts, release those that no longer serve unity with the I AM, and commit to the higher self within. When I revise this inner decree, a cleansing fire of clarity unfolds, restoring inner order and a sense of moral alignment. And the result is a renewed covenant—loyalty to my divine nature, a peace that confirms I am consciousness, and that my outer life follows from the felt truth I enact in imagination and feeling.