The Name Within: Inner Judgment

Neville's Inner Vision

Zimri's name stands as a symbol of a particular state of consciousness within you. The slain man and the Midianitish woman represent a mind that combines what is holy with what is not, the inner idolater who wants both purity and allure. The narrative thus reveals the law that your inner world names its own events. When a belief approves of separation—an other whom you think you must possess or appease—you enact death upon the true self, and the outward story mirrors this inner choice. The prince of a chief house among the Simeonites points to your ruling center of awareness—the I AM in you—whose allegiance to conflicting ideas brings judgments that prune away clinging patterns. Yet this is not punishment but purification by awareness: what you have harbored in imagination returns as experience until you reoccupy your single, undivided identity. By recognizing that the outer is but the inner motion of belief, you can awaken to the truth that you are, always, the I AM, the life and order behind every scene.