Inner Jerusalem in Affliction

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville's ear, this verse is a map of the human mind: Jerusalem is your inner state, the memory of calm and bloom, now touched by pain and loss. The miseries are the present habits of thought that arise when you identify with lack. The enemy's hand is the resistance of doubt and limitation; no helper appears because you have not yet realized your power to act from the I AM. The mockery of sabbaths points to times when your peaceful states are ridiculed by your current mental weather, as if rest were weakness. Yet the text invites a simple turn: consciousness can 'remember' differently. The past is not a chain but a memory within; by choosing a new present tense, you re-erect the city within. The I AM within you is the true Jerusalem; if you dwell there, you awaken the memory of pleasant things as your permanent state, not as relics of the past. Focus on the assumption that you are now in control, that support and ease flow from the inner state, and feel that this is true in your body and breath.