Inner Mastery Over Mammon

Neville's Inner Vision

Observe that the text speaks not of two distant rulers, but of two inner masters vying for your attention. When you identify as the one who fears lack or clings to security, mammon governs your thoughts and you hate God; when you acknowledge yourself as the I AM, the living awareness that animates every feeling, you suddenly discover you cannot be ruled by both. In Neville's language, wealth and security are pictures in your own imagination—forms of consciousness you hire to keep you safe. The moment you decide that God, the supreme I AM, is the only master, your inner dialogues revise: lack becomes provision, fear becomes trust, and attachment to possessions dissolves into gratitude. The shift is not in the outer world but in the inner posture: you accept one ruler, and the other loses authority. Your external world then follows the new state of consciousness, not by effort but by effortless alignment.