Inner Exile, Inner Kingdom

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville’s terms, the city represents your present state of consciousness, the king of Babylon is the dominant belief or outer circumstance that has claimed your attention. The warning that you will be delivered into his hand is a hint that you have yielded to that state, letting it rule your inner life. Yet the king’s mouth-to-mouth speech is not chance; it is your inner dialogue with the state. When you hear this, you are invited to turn the scene around by assuming the opposite king—the I AM that governs your inner realm. The outer event (the exile to Babylon) becomes a symbolic invitation to retire from a worn out response and to re-enter the inner kingdom by imagining a new state: confidence, safety, and total control of your imagery. The scripture thus becomes a manual for revision: you acknowledge the existing appearance, then return to the awareness that the city and the king are mental states, not external facts. By feeling the wish fulfilled and refusing to argue with the sight, you cause the outer scene to align with your inner decree.