Providence Overthrows the Harlot

Neville's Inner Vision

Verse 16–17 reads like a manifesto for inner transformation. The harlot is not the external empire but the old story of separation that once seemed to govern you. The ten horns are your own distributive powers of thought and feeling—habits, ambitions, fears—collectively acting to desolate that old image. Yet the text says God hath put in their hearts to fulfill His will, which in Neville’s terms means your deeper I AM has stirred the mental atmosphere to complete a divine pattern you have already imagined as real. The coming destruction is the natural consequence of an inner adjustment: as those states of consciousness align with truth, the old form dissolves and is burned away, while the beast receives the kingdom in service of a higher order, until the words of God are fulfilled within your life. Remember, Providence is not distant; it is the ongoing activity of your inner life, rearranging your inner world until the kingdom manifests as your present experience.