Sightless Crown, Internal Exile

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the king who blinds and binds not as a historical person but as a state of consciousness in you. The act of putting out Zedekiah's eyes is your mind’s dramatic way of refusing to see through the old story of limitation. The chains are the stubborn beliefs that keep you tethered to a Babylon-state of fear and exile. When you imagine him carried away, you are witnessing the movement of consciousness from a familiar realm of constraint into a new, inner territory you choose to claim. In Neville's terms, God is the I AM—the awareness that does the perceiving—and the verse invites you to cease identifying with the old king and his exilic destiny. By accepting that your inner sight can be restored and your authority reaffirmed, you reverse the scene: you act from the feeling that a higher vision governs, and the outward condition follows your inner state. The judgment, then, is not punishment from without but a signal that you are awakening to a sovereign mind that cannot be exiled from itself.