Inner Exit From the Siege

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, the city is a state of mind. Abiding in the city means clinging to an outer picture of danger and limitation, and the 'death' promised there is the psychic death of a consciousness that refuses to revise. The act of going out to the besiegers is not a physical migration but a shift in identification—letting the besieging power stand for a transition in awareness. When you acknowledge the I AM that is more real than appearances, the siege loses its power and life becomes the natural expression of your inner state. The line about life being 'unto him for a prey' becomes a revelation: your life is not at the mercy of circumstance but is being claimed by your new consciousness. Revision and feeling are the keys: persist in the assumption that you are the life of God, already beyond the fear, and watch as the inner and outer align. If you feel pressed, repeat gently, I am alive in God; I depart from the city and enter the living kingdom within.