Jeremiah at the Inner Gate

Neville's Inner Vision

Look beyond the gate and the outward blows. In Neville's terms, Jeremiah's arrest and the princes' anger are movements within your own consciousness. The gate of Benjamin becomes a gate in the mind where a certain identity is guarded by fear; the captain of the ward is a habit of thought, the voice that says you fall away to the Chaldeans. The princes who strike and imprison Jeremiah stand for your conditioned beliefs—the verdicts of others that bind you to a story of exile. What Jeremiah insists—'It is false; I fall not away'—is your true I AM declaring allegiance to the living reality within, not to an external label. In this sense, prophecy is not about a future event but about the present state you choose. If you accept a self divided and judged, you will feel imprisoned; revise to a state of unity and faithfulness to your I AM, and the prison dissolves as merely a misperception. Exile and return are inner cycles: a return to your original, unbound consciousness.