Inner Cleansing of Babylon

Neville's Inner Vision

I interpret the lines as a parable of inner consciousness. Babylon is a state of separateness—thoughts of possession, fear, and supremacy dressed as power. 'Prepare slaughter for his children' becomes the discipline of ending the lineage of those beliefs; the I AM within you rises to sever the old name, the remnant, and the memory that you are less than whole. When the text says 'I will rise up against them,' it is your own awareness asserting sovereignty over that dream and washing away the old identity. The promise to turn Babylon into a wasteland—a bittern and pools of water—signals the humiliation of the old self-image and the clearing of your inner landscape. The besom of destruction is the swift sweeping action of pure awareness that removes form-bound threat. In Neville's method, you do not wait for external events; you undo them by realizing that the end you seek is already present as I AM. End the old tale, and behold a renewed inner city arising from within.