Inner City of the Soul

Neville's Inner Vision

To the Neville mind, Ezekiel's map is a map of consciousness. The five thousand left in breadth opposite the twenty-five thousand is not a geographic division but the circle of your present awareness, where the ordinary, not-yet-holy thoughts are set apart as a 'profane place' for dwelling and suburbs. The city in the midst is your I AM—the living single sense of being that remains when you stop bargaining with lack and limitation. The north, south, east, and west measures—four thousand five hundred—are the precise dimensions of attention you allot to this center in your imagination, the border where your awareness holds the line against distraction. The two hundred fifty suburbs in each cardinal direction represent the tiny habits, stories, and identifications that hover around the core state; they exist, but they are not the city. The call is to consecrate the entire field by assuming the I AM as the only ruler, holy and present, and to revise every peripheral state by feeling it real. In this frame, presence of God becomes not a distant event but the ongoing occupancy of your mind.