Bethlehem Within: The Governor

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this text, the geography is a map of consciousness. Bethlehem is not a place you visit; it is the quiet, receptive state where the I AM awakens to its own sovereignty. The Governor named in the prophecy is the ruler who, imagined as already resident within you, begins to govern the restless thoughts, fears, and appetites. Israel represents your inner faculties—memory, imagination, will, feeling—and when the Governor sits upon the throne, these faculties yield to one author: the I AM within. The prophecy thus describes an inner awakening, the alignment of your inner world with divine law, not a distant event. The Kingdom of God is the order established in consciousness. Your practice is to assume the state of this Governor, to feel as though he is ruling now, to revise any contrary impression, and to let feel-it-real conviction permeate every moment. Then outward circumstances can rearrange to mirror the settled order you have already chosen in your mind.