The Inner Staff of Unity

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville's language, the two staffs are not two peoples but two faculties of your own consciousness seeking identity. Judah and Israel symbolize a divided sense of self—loyalty to one part while denying the other—yet the outer world merely mirrors your internal policy. When Zechariah says, I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood, he points to an inner act of revision: you revise the belief that unity must be held together by separate loyalties. The 'brotherhood' is a hoped-for harmony in outer appearances; the act of severing is the choosing of a single I AM, a unity that does not require external keeps. The effect is not destruction, but the quiet unveiling that the Kingdom of God is one state of consciousness, abiding here and now. If you feel the impulse to partition or defend a camp, notice it, and let the feeling be revised: you are the sole creator of your world, and your inner oneness manifests as your outer order.