City of Inner Zion

Neville's Inner Vision

Jerusalem in the text is the inner Zion within your consciousness. The Jebusites are stubborn beliefs about yourself; the blind and the lame symbolize what you have labeled as incapacity. When David, your Inner King, takes the strong hold of Zion, you awaken to a new order of awareness—your I AM ruling over fear, doubt, and limitation. The gutter represents the narrow path of attention through which you approach the deepest issues. To rise there and strike the Jebusites is to revise your sense of self, to say plainly, 'I am the one who can enter and redeem the fortress of my mind.' The charge to whosoever would be chief and captain means that leadership in your life is assigned to the one who acts in alignment with that inner state, not by external power. Thus the city of David becomes a self-governing inner kingdom built around from Millo inward—an ongoing expansion of consciousness, gradually surrounding your entire life. In practice, you are invited to claim, by assumption, that you have already entered and dwelt within Zion.