Inner Cities of Judah

Neville's Inner Vision

Observe that the 'they' in the verse are not other people out there; they are the currents of your own mind—habits, attachments, and rituals you have allowed to govern you. The 'cities' and 'streets' are the many compartments of your consciousness: memory, desire, opinion, fear, and worship. When you say you 'see' their deeds, you are really looking at the effects of a state of being you have consented to. The key is not condemnation but revelation: the outer acts only echo the inner throne you have seated yourself upon. If you are clinging to ritual while denying the living presence of I AM, you are worshiping the wrong idol, and the city decays into what you call sin. Neville would say: imagine the I AM as the ruler of the inner city, welcome truth, and revise the inner dialogue until it aligns with wholeness. Your awareness is the currency of change; to alter the outward you must assume a different inner state, feel it as already done, and dwell there until it becomes your world. The verse thus becomes a call to inner repentance, not condemnation: reoccupy the throne of consciousness with faith in your own unity with God.