Inner Fire of Purification

Neville's Inner Vision

From the vantage point of Neville Goddard, the city is not a city at all but a state of consciousness. The 'bloody' city marks patterns of fear, guilt, and violence you repeatedly identify with. The 'pile for fire' is the decision of attention, the inner furnace you turn up with imagination until the old, unclean self is burned away. Flesh burned and bones consumed symbolize the disintegration of habitual identities; the heating of brass and the melting of filth reveal your true metal—the immutable I AM—when you stop defending the unclean self. The directive to set it upon coals until the scum is consumed becomes a discipline: hold the image long enough, feel the heat, and let every impurity dissolve in your awareness. This is not punishment but a purification of consciousness, a chance to align with your divine nature rather than cling to a condemned story. When you persist in identifying with the fire's work, you awaken to the truth that the self can be refined by imagination into a purer expression of being.