Inner Crown of Consciousness

Neville's Inner Vision

In the inner kingdom, the scene is your soul’s theatre: Barabbas is the old man—the ego clinging to worldly judgments—freed while the Christ within endures purification. The scourging and the crown of thorns symbolize the peeling away of cherished identities and beliefs that claim authority over your life. The scarlet robe and the reed of authority represent the roles you wear when you seek power from others, and the crowd’s hail is the counterfeit applause of circumstance. Yet the King inside does not fight; the inner Self accepts the trial as a necessary clearing, a passage through which true authority is reclaimed not by force but by inward awareness. When those around us mock or reject, we recall that the outer scene is a projection of inner disposition. The crown you bear is not external royalty but the costly discipline of awakening, the willingness to be seen as you truly are—unity with the I AM.