East Boundary of the Inner Kingdom

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture Ezekiel’s map as a map of your own consciousness. The east side measured from Hauran, Damascus, Gilead, and the land by Jordan is not a line on the land but a line in awareness. These places symbolize inner states: Hauran as resistance unfelt, Damascus as memory that binds the moment, Gilead as balm you offer to the self, and Jordan as the threshold where old self yields to new life. When you affirm the east boundary, you appoint the I AM as ruler of your experience, the witness who counts what is real and what is not. The east sea is the sea of Life toward which imagination travels; it is the horizon you move toward by assumption and feeling it real. The covenant loyalty spoken here is your fidelity to that I AM, regardless of appearances. The Kingdom of God is not outside you but the inward realm that becomes your outward world as you dwell there in present tense. So measure your life with a single act of awareness: this border already exists within you, and you can live from it now.