The Prince Within The Gate

Neville's Inner Vision

To Ezekiel, the prince who sits to eat bread before the LORD is not a man in robes but a state of consciousness permitted to commune with the living presence of God. The sanctuary, the bread, and the gate are all inner symbols: the sanctuary is your mind’s quiet center; the bread is the nourishment of awareness you feed upon with attention; the gate and porch mark the way you enter and depart in a single, unbroken attitude. You are the I AM in action, the ruler whose imaginative life creates reality. When you assume this prince, you bring your attention into a sacred posture, and the simple act of eating becomes the receipt of being-ness—an affirmation that you already belong to the divine scene. If you drift into doubt, revise by returning to the image: enter by the porch of that gate, take your bread before the LORD, and exit by the same gate, still centered in the consciousness that God is I AM within you. Imagination is your doorway; what you dwell in within becomes your world.