Gate of Inner Unity

Neville's Inner Vision

I hear in this account a city of consciousness deciding to be one people by a symbolic cutting away of separation. The city stands for your current state of awareness; the 'men' are your fixed habits and the belief in separateness. The condition—'if every male among us be circumcised'—is not a physical rite but a spiritual revision: you cut away the old sense that you must defend your separate self in order to live. When that belief is removed, unity emerges, and with it the sense that what you call theirs—the cattle, the substance, the wealth of life—becomes yours because you dwell as one. The gate of the city is your moment of decision in awareness. When you listen to the voice that says, 'We are one now,' all outward forces align to reflect that inner state. Hamor and Shechem respond to the new you; every male within your world—your judgments, fears, and stubborn identifications— submits to the conviction of oneness. The verse invites you to act from the inside first: imagine you are already one with the whole, revise the sense of separation, and feel the abundance flowing as unity becomes your natural state of consciousness.