Inner Return in Shushan Palace

Neville's Inner Vision

Nehemiah 1:1 presents the narrator in the act of speaking—your own I AM, naming a present place and a future restoration. In Neville’s terms this is not a chronicle of outward events, but a demonstration of consciousness. The words he speaks are the inner sentences you utter about yourself: I am here in the palace of my awareness, I perceive a need for rebuilding, I call forth the return. Exile and exile-mentality are inner propositions, not distant places; Shushan the palace stands for a comfortable but constraining sense of self. The month and year mark your now-time, the precise moment you choose to listen within and declare change. The value of this moment is the practice: to assume the feeling of the fulfilled restoration, revise any image of lack, and feel the walls as if already rebuilt by Presence. When such imagination is held as fact in your I AM, your outer circumstances align with the inner state, and the inner city rises into life, mirroring your refined consciousness.