The Inner Gatekeeper

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this sharp rebuke, the kingdom you seek is not a distant fortress but a living state of awareness. The so-called gatekeepers are not external men, but your own patterns of mind that pretend purity while gripping control, long prayers, and clever converts. When you identify with such posture, you shut the gate of awareness and insist that others must change before you enter. Neville teaches that the kingdom is within, and entering is a matter of changing your consciousness rather than changing the world. So you revise: you drop the idea that piety is a performance and claim that I AM is the source and doorway of all life. By assuming the state, you invite true entry; by relaxing judgment, you permit others to step through with you. The “greater damnation” becomes a warning that misalignment yields derailed results in your life, because your inner speech becomes your outer weather. Thus, you choose to align prayer with living truth, not as a public display but as an inner petition that awakens the kingdom right where you stand.