The Cry Rises to Heaven

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through Neville Goddard’s inner-state lens, Ekron’s affliction and the cry to heaven reveal the mind at odds with its own truth. The Philistines symbolize a state of consciousness—the stubborn belief that life’s power or safety comes from outside or through separation. The emerods are outward signs of that inner conflict, while the city’s cry upward marks the moment when awareness returns to its source, the I AM. The Ark represents truth arising within consciousness; when truth stands in mind, it exposes old patterns and compels them to dissolve. The afflicted live on only so long as the old belief holds; when the cry is heard in the mind, the energy shifts toward revision by assumption. In this practice, you do not beg for relief but reassert your rightful state: assume you are whole now, that the emerods dissolve in the light of your oneness. The plague becomes a diagnostic signal, not punishment; the answer is to feel the truth of unity until it dominates the experience.