Inner Rebellion Exile Return

Neville's Inner Vision

On the inner plane, the 'king of Babylon' is not a conqueror outside you but a law you have accepted as true about yourself. The 'rebellious house' is a disposition of mind that doubts the one I AM that you truly are. When Ezekiel sees Jerusalem stripped and its king and princes led into exile, the vision is not a memory but a mirror of your own abandoned feelings—moments when you believed a smaller self ruled your destiny. The symbol says: you asked for limits, and limits appeared as if from without. Yet the word of the Lord—the I AM speaking as consciousness—invites a reversal. Exile is the momentary disappearance from the awareness of your wholeness; return is the revival of the sense that you are the sovereign creator, the king who names his world. If you hold to the old scene, you obey the illusion; if you revise it in your imagination, you restore the state of being that was always yours. Your present feeling, not external events, is the true causation, and imagination will redraw the scene to reflect your real identity.