Inner Wealth and Everlasting Habitations

Neville's Inner Vision

I tell you, Luke 16:9 reveals wealth as a state of consciousness you may befriend and employ. The mammon becomes a symbol for life-energy you direct by imagination. To 'make to yourselves friends' means you consciously chart alliances with that energy by using it for the good of others, so that when external fortune fades, you have inner friendships that endure. Every act of generosity is a seed planted in your inner soil, producing states of consciousness that remain when the world changes. The 'unrighteousness' element points to the moral value of the wealth-charged energy; its righteousness or unrighteousness is irrelevant to the law, which is your use of it. By imagining yourself as the steward of abundance—giving, supporting, and blessing—you create a doorway through which abundance flows and your inner kingdom receives you in times of apparent failure. The promise of 'everlasting habitations' is the establishment of settled, peaceful states within you, where you are welcomed by your own higher sense of being.