Inner Cities of Spirit Fortified

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Neville's psychology, the cities are landmarks in your own mind. The verse's fortified cities are not stones set in the ground, but fixed states of consciousness-clarity, courage, harmony, even in the southern realm of your experience, the regions of Judah and Benjamin signifying the known and the intimate. When you imagine these walls, you are training your attention to persist in a state of unity, under Providence, shining as a safe harbor for all life around you. The act of fortifying is the inner decision to keep out fear and to invite guidance; the walls are the I AM awareness surrounding your daily acts. In this sense, the kingdom of God within rises by steadiness of feeling and the conviction that the city is defended by a universal intelligence. The more you dwell as this consciousness, the more your external events align with peace, order, and cooperative living. This is not coercion but alignment: you remember that you are the imagination that imagines, and the city becomes a realm of harmony.