Inner Kingship in Proverbs 31

Neville's Inner Vision

Within you sits the king, Lemuel, but the true ruler is the I AM that oversees every thought. The mother’s prophecy is the voice of your higher self reminding you to keep power pure and to refuse states that dull consciousness. When you indulge pleasures that dull discernment, you forget the law you vowed to keep; your judgments bend away from the afflicted toward distraction. The strong drink you fear is not wine but appetites and images that numb awareness. Instead, give strength to those ready to perish by nourishing the heart with compassionate vision, and forget poverty only as a memory dissolved by your inner light. Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all appointed to destruction; speak with the authority of your inward law, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy as you would plead your own. The inner king is consciousness acting through imagination; when you assume the ruler now, you align with that law and make justice real in your world.