Damascus Inner Fire Transformation

Neville's Inner Vision

Here, the Damascus of the text is not a city 'out there' but a stubborn pattern in your own consciousness that uses force and fear to control energy—your Gilead. The three transgressions or four are habitual thoughts that thresh life with iron tools: the impulse to dominate, to threaten, to protect a false self, and the final belief that power comes from without. When the Lord says, I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, He is describing the purifying fire of awareness that consumes such beliefs. The breaking of the bar and the exile of the inhabitant from the plain of Aven signify the breaking of internal barriers and the departure of the old sense of scarcity and control. The promise that the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir is the inner portrait of the mind releasing its attachment to external power. In your practice you must realize that the I AM is the judge and purifier; you reclaim Eden by imagining the new sovereign state of consciousness, where you are free, whole, and abundant.