Inner Exile, Inner Return

Neville's Inner Vision

Interpret the page as a map of the inner life. The deportations are not distant history but three movements of consciousness that seem to scatter the sense of self. In your present scene, Jerusalem stands for your center—your awareness—now felt emptied as fear, limitation, and doubt push in. Yet imagination is the law: you can call back what seemed dispersed by the act of assuming a new state. The captives are your faculties—memory, trust, joy—simply waiting to be gathered under the sovereign I AM. The total of four thousand six hundred stands as a tally of so many inner episodes you believed were real; you may reverse the tally by choosing, here and now, the feeling of indivisible wholeness. Do not seek return in time or circumstance; return comes when you acknowledge that you never truly left your true state. As you persist in this inner acceptance, you will feel the exiles drawn back and the whole man standing in the light of the I AM.