Inner Exodus Isaiah 48:20

Neville's Inner Vision

To apprehend Isaiah 48:20 is to hear a decree issued from the sanctuary of your own awareness. Babylon and the Chaldeans are not distant places but states of mind that bind you to limitation. To go forth is to demote those mental identities and to enter the territory of I AM, your real Self. The command to declare with a voice of singing is the discipline of imagination: you speak as if the redemption is already accomplished, not as a plea for deliverance. When you affirm that the LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob, you are recognizing that Jacob—the conscious you now name “I”—has been redeemed by your own awareness. Redemption is not future—it is the waking of the mind to its freedom. The ends of the earth symbolize the furthest reaches of your imaginative life; let this inner decree reverberate until it rests in the heart as certainty. Thus the exile dissolves as you persist in the assumed state of I AM, and your outer world mirrors that inward liberty.