Nob to Zion Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Isaiah is not giving us a map of geography but a map of mind. The ‘Nob’ where the man remains is a stubborn state you tolerate in consciousness—the memory of separation that keeps you from the hill of Jerusalem within. The shaking hand against the mount is the old impulse of fear and criticism reaching toward your sacred center, trying to wound the very seat of your awareness. Yet the mount of the daughter of Zion and the hill of Jerusalem signify your I AM—the elevated, unshakable consciousness that quietly stands behind every thought. When you realize that you are the one who imagines the siege, you can revise it. Do not search for a change outside; re-enter the state that is already true: Zion established in you, Nob dissolved by a single act of awareness. The “Assyrian” becomes the habit of doubt and control, whose power ends the moment you insist, I am God in this moment, I am awake now, and the hill is mine. As you inhabit that inner reality, the siege collapses and the inner city remains intact, irrespective of outward appearances.