Inner Exile, Inner Return

Neville's Inner Vision

The passage speaks not of a distant nation, but of the mind you inhabit. The king of Judah is the I AM within you, ruling your sense of self; the princes of Babylon are the pressures that seem to overtake attention; the women, wives, and children are your inner faculties held in fear. The mire is the belief that escape is impossible. Yet the I AM never condemns; it invites revision. In this moment you are called to faith: imagine you have already freed yourself from those bonds. Feel the warmth of a new inner authority; the city burned represents old conditions dissolving in the heat of realization. There is no punishment, only awakening. When you assume, ‘I am the king of this mind, and my city is purified by consciousness,’ you find the exile was a purification rite, and the return is the renewed awareness of your eternal freedom.