Awakening Through Inner Desolation

Neville's Inner Vision

Like every fierce decree in Ezekiel, the speech is a mirror of the I AM within. The 'house of Israel' represents a state of consciousness that has yielded to false attachments—the abominations are the unworthy beliefs and impulses you still entertain. The sword, famine, and pestilence are inner forces that trim away the old without mercy when you persist in them. Yet note the deeper truth: the moment of exposure comes so you may awaken to who you are. When the slain lie among their idols round about their altars, the mind discovers that the idols were never external gods but thoughts you used to serve. On every hill and under every tree you offered sweet savour to those habits; the land becomes a mirror of your present state. Then, the hand that devastates becomes the keystone of the new awareness: you realize that the LORD is within you as the I AM. The desolation is not punishment but a clearing that makes room for a real identity—one that knows itself as consciousness, not circumstance. The result is not exile from life, but return to your true self.