Inner Gate of Ezekiel 9:2-3

Neville's Inner Vision

To Ezekiel’s vision you are the watcher of your inner city. The six men with slaughter weapons are the restless energies of mind—doubt, craving, fear, pride, habit, and noise—moving toward the altar you call holy. The linen-clad man with the inkhorn is your rational faculty, the scribe that records what you accept as real. When they go in and stand by the brazen altar, notice that the act of entering is your attention shifting from sensation to valuation and judgment. Then the glory of the God of Israel rising to the threshold signals a change in consciousness—the moment your awareness ceases to identify with the old self and stands at the boundary, called to account. God here is the I AM within you, the power by which a new state is imagined. The summons is to revise the inner situation by declaring a new truth into your temple, and to feel it as real. If you persist, the divine glory returns to dwell inside your temple, and you align with your true Self rather than the image of the former self.