Glory Ascends Within Ezekiel

Neville's Inner Vision

Let us reinterpret Ezekiel's vision as a script for the mind. The cherubim and wheels are not external machines but the movements of your own imagination. The lifting of wings represents your turning away from the crowd of thoughts that identify you with a city-built self. The glory of the God of Israel over them above is the recognition that the I AM—the one awareness behind all scenes—dwells already here, above every surface event. When the glory of the LORD goes up from the midst of the city and stands upon the mountain on the east, this is a shift of state, not a distance traveled. You ascend in consciousness to a higher vantage point; the 'east' is the unfolding dawn of awareness within your mind. Exile and return are not future journeys but inner revisions: you are invited to leave your old self-image and stand where presence shines as immediate fact. Practice by assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled: that you are the I AM, you already stand upon your inner mountain, and the world appears to conform to that light.