Inner Zion Gates Reopened

Neville's Inner Vision

Zion in this verse is your inner kingdom of awareness. The mournful ways indicate that your habitual attention has wandered from the feast of the I AM—the living sense of God within. When you neglect this inner feast, the gates of your mind close; the city of your consciousness becomes desolate. The priests you listen to are your conditioned beliefs and rituals; they sigh because they sense a neglect of the sacred discipline that keeps you awake to God’s presence. The virgins, your innocence and receptivity, are afflicted by fear, doubt, or the memory of lack, and bitterness becomes the weather of your mind. Yet desolation is not punishment but a signal: you have forgotten the living perception of God and have allowed appearances to rule your thinking. Restore Zion by assuming the presence of I AM now as your reality. Let the feeling that God is immanent and unchanging flood your awareness. In that act of inner revision, the gates reopen, the priests rise with renewed confidence, the virgins smile, and bitterness dissolves into gratefulness.