Inner City Refuge Practice

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville Goddard's terms, the slayer is a state of consciousness acting unwittingly, and the city of refuge is a state of mind you enter by attention and assumption. The avenger of blood symbolizes lingering guilt, memory, or fear pursuing the old self-image. The elders are the inner authorities, the testimonies of your higher self who judge your case and affirm you are safe within this interior sanctuary. By standing at the gate and declaring your cause, you do not appeal to external power; you reframe the relationship of your inner life, placing the past within a field of awareness where it cannot override your present certainty. The requirement to dwell there until judgment and the death of the high priest signals that the old impulse dissolves only as a new inner leadership—the Christ within—takes hold. Then you return home with a transformed sense of self. The practical magic is simple: assume and dwell in this refuge until the old fear dies its death, and you inhabit your true home in consciousness.