Damascus Inner Fire Vision

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through Neville Goddard's lens, Damascus becomes a state of consciousness rather than a city on a map. The fear, faintheartedness, and travail you sense in these verses are inner movements of mind when you have forgotten your I AM. The line 'Damascus is waxed feeble' signals the moment you have given power to a worn-out thought-pattern, and the next phrase 'turneth herself to flee' invites you to revise that tendency by turning attention away from the image and back to your true self. The 'city of praise' that is not left points to the inner city of joy you can inhabit by assumption. When the oracle says 'her young men shall fall in her streets,' it is the crumbling of habitual beliefs under the pressure of a new conviction. The fire that will kindle in the wall of Damascus is the inner cleansing of your premise—your mind burning away Benhadad's palaces, the old defenses you once trusted. Nebuchadrezzar's smiting of the eastern kingdoms becomes a symbol of external forces you no longer grant power to, since you are the dreamer, the I AM. By choosing a new state and feeling it real, you awaken your inner Jerusalem.