Inner Exile, Sacred Purification

Neville's Inner Vision

I read Lamentations 4:13-15 as a map of my inner economy: the sins of my 'prophets' and 'priests' are the stubborn beliefs that justify separation, the 'blood of the just' is action born of fear, the 'blind men in the streets' are states of consciousness wandering without sight, and the command 'depart, it is unclean' is the verdict I have given to parts of me that refuse to align with the I AM. When I identify with such judgments, I am exiled from my true home in God, wandering among the heathen of doubt and the sense that I cannot touch my garments. The cry to depart becomes the invitation to revise: I am not bound to that old self or its unclean garments. In this moment I imagine the inner sanctum clearing, the 'blood' washed away by the I AM's fire, and the cry that once was rises into a calm assurance that I shall no longer dwell in the mistaken belief that I am separate. The verse becomes a prophecy of return—back to the holy state that is my natural home.