Inner Judgment of the King Within

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville Goddard, this verse is not about a historical king but the inner consciousness, the I AM, awakening to a misalignment in your mind. The king hearing thereof represents the moment you become aware of a discordant state within; wrath is the natural momentum of awareness when false beliefs are exposed. The armies are your thoughts, images, and deliberate feelings marshaled to reoccupy your consciousness with a new state. The murderers symbolize those beliefs and habits that have invaded your inner peace; their destruction and the burning of the city signify a thorough clearing of the old scripts that cannot survive the king’s decree. When you recognize that you are the authority, you permit the rebuilding of your inner world according to a higher pattern. This is not vengeance in the external world, but the inner revision by which your state of consciousness is re-formed, and the outer life follows. The practice is to assume that the king within has already acted; feel the clearing as real now, and dwell in the awareness of the rebuilt inner city.