The Inner Remnant Assembled

Neville's Inner Vision

Ezra 9:4 appears as the soul's invitation to the remnant state of consciousness. The assembly Ezra calls is the mind gathering every portion that trembles at the words of the God of Israel—the God within, the I AM, the awareness that cannot deny truth. The 'transgression' spoken of is not only historical guilt but any belief in separation from God. When I read that he 'sat astonied until the evening sacrifice,' I hear the moment of stillness when old self-doubt collapses and the vision of unity becomes real. The evening sacrifice becomes an inner practice: the felt sense that I am offering to myself and to God the old limited self and choosing a new state of consciousness. Thus the remnant is not a crowd but my true being, the consciousness that endures when fear is laid aside. Return, holiness, and unity are not distant events but the shifts of awareness I practice in imagination, here and now, until they become my lived reality.