Inner Cleansing, Outer Destruction

Neville's Inner Vision

Your mind is the city, and the decree is your decisive act of inner obedience. The command to destroy and burn is not external violence but the turning away from a failed story and the letting go of what the old city worshiped. The edge of the sword is the sharpness of your attention, cutting through habit, cutting off the run of two-dimensional thoughts. When you align with the I AM—the awareness that you are—you can declare the city’s inhabitants as no longer you, gather up the old 'spoils' as misdirected desires, and burn them in the street of your imagination so there is no rebuilding. The ensuing heap is the fixed memory of your new choice, forever unbuilt by the old script. This is holiness: a holy separation that preserves your now-present state of awakened consciousness. Follow the inner command, and you release your mind from the old idolatries, making room for a new kingdom within you that cannot be shaken.