Ezra's Inner Cyrus Awakening

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice how the text pins a worldly ruler to a divine purpose, yet the real motor is inward. The LORD stirring Cyrus is the I AM awakening a sense of authority within your own mind, so that the world outside echoes a settled inner decree. When Cyrus proclaims that the God of heaven has given him kingdoms and charged him to build a house in Jerusalem, regard this as a symbol: your higher self grants you permission to return home to your temple, and to begin the work that only you can complete. The exile you feel is simply a temporary misalignment from the inner city of awareness; the return is the reestablishment of consciousness in its rightful place. The instruction to 'let him go up to Jerusalem' becomes practical: rise in your imagination, pick up the tools of thought and feeling that build a sacred space within, and act as though the temple is already under construction. The fulfillment spoken by Jeremiah becomes your present experience as you accept the decree, and give your attention to the labor of inner worship.