Inner Chains of Justice

Neville's Inner Vision

To read Psalms 149:7-8 through Neville’s lens, the 'heathen' and their 'kings' are inner dispositions—fear, lack, pride—that seem to reign in the mind. The 'vengeance' and 'punishments' point not to punishment of others but to the collapse of those rulers as you awaken. When I assume a state in which I am already free, I bind those kings with chains of awareness and iron of disciplined attention. The chains are the stubborn habits of thought I no longer feed; the iron are the fixed impressions I dare to revise. Vengeance, in this sense, is the justice of seeing through appearances: as I feel it real that the I AM is all, the outer world rearranges to reflect the inner order. The exile tales vanish and the return occurs as a return to awareness. So I practice: dwell in the consciousness that I am the ruler, imagine the mind's tyrants being bound, and feel the relief and liberty that follows. In that inner result, justice and peace manifest in my life.