Inner Deliverance by Imagination

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice how the king’s fatness represents a swollen state of consciousness—an ego swollen with habit and appetite. Ehud’s arrival with a 'secret errand' is the moment the inner I AM becomes aware of a new, nonconforming idea. The dagger, drawn from his left hand, is the advent of a new belief, launched from the non-dominant side of consciousness—the 'left' as the quiet voice of intuition. When Ehud says, 'I have a message from God unto thee,' the listener within rises to receive a revision. The blade enters the belly of fear, not the body, signifying a piercing of self-imposed limitation by the new assumption. The haft going in after the blade and the fat closing around it show ego resisting the fresh conviction, while the dirt being expelled marks the shedding of old patterns under the force of that inner truth. This tale, then, is a parable: liberation begins with a secret inner communication from the Self to the I AM, and a willingness to revise what you take as real. As you assent and feel it real, your inner king yields, and freedom follows in your life.