Inner Gateways of Freedom

Neville's Inner Vision

All the pageant of Babylon's princes at the gate is a mirror of your inner condition. The city is your consciousness; the king of Babylon represents pressing circumstance that claims your attention. When Zedekiah sees them and the warriors flee by night, this is your mind withdrawing from fear, choosing distance rather than confrontation. In Neville's terms, the princes are the known conditions of lack that seem to rule your scene; their arrival signals a fall only if you identify with them. Yet the drama reveals the boundary between your walls—the inner gate that separates two states of consciousness—has always existed within you as an act of choice. You have the power to revise from within; the outer event is only the echo of your inner assumption. If you entertain the conviction that you are the I AM, and that your awareness creates the scene, you can imagine the outcome as already real: the siege dissolves, you remain within the city, and the gate opens to a peaceful plain. The shift is not in changing others, but in changing your inner agreement.