The Gate Of Inner Presence

Neville's Inner Vision

In the inner temple of your own being, the east gate represents the edge where consciousness meets the sacred. Ezekiel says the gate is shut because the Lord has entered by it. So too in you: when the I AM—the living awareness you are—steps into the field of your attention, the old gates of fear, doubt, and need are sealed. The outward gate, a symbol of appearances and familiar opinions, yields its power the moment Presence takes residence. The gate does not bar life; it preserves the holy habitation, allowing only the living Presence to dwell. 'Entered in by it' means your sense of self yields to the I AM, and the sacred becomes the governing reality of your inner city. You are no longer at the mercy of appearances; you become the temple where pure consciousness resides, guarded by an inner boundary that says, 'Only the divine may pass here.' Practice: assume the Presence has entered now, revise any sense of separation, and feel the gate of awareness sealed as you breathe the I AM into every chamber.