Inner Return to Jerusalem

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the ascent as your inner shift from a Babylon of limitation to a Jerusalem of presence. The company listed—children of Israel, priests, Levites, singers, porters, and Nethinims—represent the faculties of your consciousness gathering in the holy city of awareness. The seventh year of Artaxerxes and the months named mark cycles by which you discipline attention, patient in the turning of the mind toward God. The outward journey is not geography; it is the movement of your inner state toward alignment with the I AM. The phrase 'upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon' signals the moment you decide to leave your old beliefs; 'and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem' confirms that your inner work manifests as a realized state in time. The good hand of God upon him is your inner assurance that consciousness creates reality; your return is a ceremonial re-dedication to your divine identity. Embrace the feeling that you have already arrived; know that your life bends toward your inner Jerusalem when you persist in the belief.