Goats Before Flocks: Inner Exodus

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine Babylon as a stubborn pattern of thought you mistakenly call real. The command to remove yourself is not a geographic order but a shift of consciousness: you, the I AM, step out of the dream of limitation and walk as one who knows freedom. The land of the Chaldeans is your current habitual identity; to depart is to dissolve that identity in awareness and refuse to relive it. When you imagine yourself going forth, you become the goat among the flock—unafraid, confident, and unaligned with the crowd's fear. In this inner exodus, there is no outer enemy to fight; there is only a revision of what you accept as true. You do not beg for rescue; you assume the feeling of liberation here and now, and the world around you hums to the frequency of that assumption. The verse invites you to practice a simple discipline: occupy the lead in your inner scene, and watch as external conditions rearrange to reflect your new state.