Inner Death of Pride and Kingship

Neville's Inner Vision

Abimelech's plea to be slain so that a woman's deed is not recorded on his name is not about a corpse but a confession of a consciousness clinging to a throne. In Neville's terms, kingship is a state of mind, and the fear of public verdicts is the inner antagonist. The 'woman' who would end him points to an undeniable truth that the old image of power is a fiction unless fed by belief. When you discern that the I AM alone rules, the impulse to kill the old king dissolves into a natural letting-go. The armour-bearer embodies your inner faculties—memory, imagination, will—acting not to destroy life but to terminate the misplaced identification with flesh and name. The outer scene becomes a parable: the death of the pride-image clears space for a new life in the Presence. Allow imagination to rewrite the scene now: you are not defined by others' stories about you; you are defined by the unchanging Presence that you are.