Inner Reign and Reunion

Neville's Inner Vision

In the Neville sense, Abimelech is not a person but a belief that one dominant self-image has the right to rule. The three years of his reign are the steady persistence of a fierce ego pattern in consciousness. The 'evil spirit' God sends is not punishment but the inner friction that reveals where your mind is divided—between the brutal impulse and the memory of the higher law you claim to serve. The men of Shechem are the supporting thoughts that backed that ruling image; their treachery mirrors how inner ideas collude to justify hurtful acts. The slaughter of Jerubbaal's seventy sons is the memory of countless former selves slain to sustain a single image, and the blood laid upon Abimelech and his allies is the psychic residue left when you act from fear and domination. Neville teaches that these scenes are internal dramas meant to wake you to the necessity of alignment with I AM, the all-knowing presence that heals through revision and regained unity in consciousness.