Inner Reckoning and Renewal

Neville's Inner Vision

To read Ezekiel's threat as only a punishment misses the empowerment hidden in the mechanism. The jealousy spoken of is the inner vigilance of a mind clinging to a former self. The harsh acts—losing nose, ears, the remnant, the fire, the stripping of clothes and jewels—are symbolic depictions of the breaking away of outward identities and attachments that no longer serve the inner state you are choosing to inhabit. In Neville's psychology, the outer event is the visible act of your inner assumption. If you operate from fear, grievance, or possession, you invite a 'furious' play of circumstances that consumes your old self. But you are not condemned to the prophecy; you are the one who imagines it forth. By shifting your assumption to the truth of your being as the I AM, you revoke the old decree and baptize your life anew. The 'jealousy' becomes a protective awareness that you are not defined by external things. The real exile is from a consciousness that believes it is separate from God, and the return is the intimate sense of oneness now present in you.