Forks of the Mind: Ezekiel 21:18-21

Neville's Inner Vision

Two roads stand before Ezekiel’s eye, but in my memory they become two movements of consciousness. The land from which they arise is your own mind, and the sword of Babylon is the appearance of circumstance when you entertain a dream about yourself you do not want. The king of Babylon stands at the fork not to arbitrate fate, but to reveal the beliefs you breathe. He consults with images and looks into liver for signs—old habit patterns that pretend to foretell the future. Yet you need only turn inward: decide which state you will inhabit, and then dwell there until it is your lived reality. Rabbath of the Ammonites and Jerusalem the defenced are archetypes of two inner climates: the one that seeks to prove its separation and the one that guards its unity. Judgment arrives not from distant gods but from your own accountability to the I AM, to the awareness that imagines and thus becomes. Idolatry is trusting signs over the felt truth of your state. When you choose a future image with feeling, the present world aligns to that image.