Inner Exile, Inner Return

Neville's Inner Vision

All the names and people in the verses are not history but states of consciousness. The captain of the guard is the guard you keep over your thoughts. Seraiah the chief priest is your organizing principle of worship, the high priority you assign to awareness. Zephaniah the second priest and the three keepers of the door are your inner thresholds and the ways you guard gates between perception and reality. The officer over the men of war is the executive function that organizes your mental battles, the way you handle fear, desire, and impulse. The five men found in the king presence and the sixty of the land are numbers for the various thoughts and images present in you at any moment. Nebuzaradan taking them to the king of Babylon at Riblah symbolizes the moment your regal mind, Babylon, the sense of separation, arranges a judgment scene where these inner movements are brought to reckon with the I AM. The exile is not punishment but a shift in your inner state; the return is the reassembly of a coherent, unified awareness. Trust that what the I AM governs within cannot be lost; it simply moves you to acknowledge and reign.