Inner Heritage and Conquest

Neville's Inner Vision

From the Neville perspective, these lines are not a geography lesson but a map of the mind. 'Great nations' and 'mighty kings' are inner powers—habits and fears that have ruled your waking life. Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan, symbolize stubborn beliefs and fixed self-images that block movement. The land they conquered and the kingdoms of Canaan represent the ranges of consciousness you can claim by the power of imagination. When the Psalm says God gave their land for an heritage unto Israel his people, it describes the moment your I AM asserts sovereignty over the territory of your thought, and you recognize that your mental landscape is the true homeland of your being. The conquest is inner sovereignty achieved by faithful imagination. It is not violence but the withdrawal of attention from the old rulers toward the awareness that your mind’s land is already yours and waiting for you to occupy it with new states of consciousness. Your heritage is the Kingdom of God within, ready to be realized through steady imagining and the feeling that you are already there.