Inner Exile, Inner Return

Neville's Inner Vision

Observe that the text speaks not of a distant punishment but of a movement within consciousness. Jehozadak, the priestly function in you, enters captivity when the outer order collapses and fear seems to rule. The LORD carrying away Judah and Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar is the I AM withdrawing attention from fixed forms to the inner authority of being. The exile reveals the condition: fear and circumstance appear to govern you only because you have believed them real. Yet your true self remains untouched, and the invitation is to return by imagination. By assuming the state of your inner priest, you revive the power of inner law: feel-it-real that you are not diminished but ready to govern from within. The judgment is a call to shift vantage point, not a sentence. Your Providential guidance flows as you keep faith in the unseen, re-creating fears into confidence and forms into the inner kingdom. When you revise from within, the return begins; you awaken to a consistent state of awareness where Judah and Jerusalem rise again in your consciousness.