Burning the Inner Weapons

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, Ezekiel places the scene inside your own consciousness. The cities of Israel are the settled states of mind in which you dwell; the weapons—shields, bucklers, bows, arrows, handstaves, spears—are the defensive thoughts and judgments you nurse about life. When you burn them with fire for seven years, you are not performing an act in a far country; you are letting the imagination discipline your sense of separation until the impulse of fear no longer governs you. The seven years symbolize a sustained, faithful attention to imagination until the old sense of conflict dissolves into peace. As you imagine the weapons consumed by flame, feel the energy you once spent defending yourself redirected into creative awareness. The day you realize that God, the I AM, is only your own awareness, you awaken to Shalom, a state of complete, inner wholeness. This is prophecy fulfilled within; it is renewal of creation by your inner act of assumption and feeling it real. The outer world will reflect this transformation as you hold this certainty in mind.