Inner King Emerges From Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Read as Neville would, the scene is not history but a state of consciousness. The wilderness is the threshold of imagination; the pillars of smoke are your beliefs rising as fragrant intention. The perfume of myrrh and frankincense is devotion worshipped by attention. The powders of the merchant are the many thoughts you trade for a single, sacred claim. The bed of Solomon's, guarded by sixty valiant men, represents a settled self conformed to fearless discipline, a mind that will not drift from its image. Each sword on the thigh is your disciplined thought, ready in the night of fear to defend the vision. The chariot built of Lebanon wood stands for a living form shaped by a higher imagination; its silver pillars, gold bottom, purple covering, and the midst paved with love symbolize wealth, purity, and the binding power of affection. When the daughters of Zion behold the king with the crown, you witness the I AM presenting itself as the realized self—your espousals day, the moment you know you are already crowned by God within. This is inner conquest through feeling and assumption.