East Gate of the Inner Self

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the Ezekiel scene, the five-and-twenty at the east gate are not distant politicians but inner states of consciousness—the chatter of fear, pride, and smallness that would keep you from knowing your true power. The lifting of Ezekiel by the Spirit is your awareness shifting to the place where you observe your thoughts. The claim that it is not near is the stubborn belief that your desires lie outside your present reach; the notion to build houses is the habit of piling up external structures of security while neglecting the living, present reality of your I AM. The city as the caldron and we as the flesh signify identifying with the noisy city of opinions and with the body-mind that believes it is in danger. The cure is a reversal: assume the state you desire, revise the sense of separation, and feel the truth that you are the I AM imagining the world into being. When you accept that you are the consciousness that renders this city, you dissolve the conspirators and birth the kingdom within.