Ascending to Inner Jerusalem

Neville's Inner Vision

Ezra’s simple record is not history alone; it is a map of your inner world. The host that ascends—the children, priests, Levites, singers, porters, and Nethinims—are the faculties of your own consciousness coming to their rightful place in the city of your mind. The children of Israel are the life within you; the priests are your inner guidance; the Levites are service and order; the singers are gratitude and praise; the porters guard the thresholds; the Nethinims serve the inner temple. All together they rise to Jerusalem, the inner kingdom, where God dwells as your I AM. The seventh year of Artaxerxes—the king who commands the outward, rational mind—speaks of timing: when your external awareness harmonizes with the inner decision to return, the exiled sense of separation dissolves. This is not a historical event to chase; it is a spiritual law: when you accept the I AM as your reality, the inner exile ends and a renewed creation appears in your experience. You are called to reorder your consciousness so that Jerusalem becomes your dwelling place, here and now.