Inner Pilgrimage Beyond the Camp

Neville's Inner Vision

All the scenes of the passage unfold within your consciousness. The gate, the camp, the city are inner dispositions, not places on a map. Jesus, the living I AM, sanctifies by the blood of awareness—this is not a history in time but a feeling state you awaken. The cross outside the gate represents shedding the old self’s attachments, the identities you cling to, the external opinions you carry as if they were you. To go forth unto Him without the camp is to move your imagination beyond every familiar boundary you have drawn around yourself. Bear his reproach not as judgment from others, but as the quiet acceptance that your present self is not fixed; you are being revised by the inside-out miracle of consciousness. For here we have no lasting city in the outward sense, but we seek the city that comes—the inner kingdom that already exists as you awaken to I AM. By feeling yourself sanctified now, you invite that city to become your lived experience.