Restoring the Inner Gates

Neville's Inner Vision

Verse 2:9 speaks of a city whose gates are sunk, bars broken, a king and princes dispersed among the nations, so that the law is no more and the prophets' visions fail to see guidance. In Neville’s terms, this is not a historical collapse but a state of consciousness you have allowed. The gates and bars are your boundaries of awareness; when they sink, you drift under the sway of conditions rather than the I AM. The king and princes among the Gentiles are the egoic rulers-habits, fears, desires—who now think themselves sovereign because you have given over the inner government to alien powers. The law no longer acts because you have ceased to acknowledge the eternal verities within you; the prophets' visions vanish because you listen to the sounds of the outer world rather than the inner guidance. Yet this is not permanent defeat, but a call to revise the assumption of lack. The inner metropolis can be rebuilt the moment you turn attention inward, claim the law, and let the I AM issue clear, living direction. Vision returns when consciousness chooses to remember its divine royalty.