Jerusalem of the I AM

Neville's Inner Vision

Observe that Nehemiah locates the city not in stone but in the state of consciousness of the I AM. The house of Gilgal, and the fields of Geba and Azmaveth are inner stations where your song is born. The singers surrounding Jerusalem signify surrounding your central awareness with concentric circles of praise—habits of feeling that reverence your divine nature. The purification of the priests and Levites is the cleansing of your mind’s ritual—the thoughts and emotions you allow to stand as gatekeepers. Purify yourself, then purify the people you are in contact with, and purify the gates and the wall—the boundaries by which impressions enter your life. In this light, every act of purification strengthens the inner city so that fear, doubt, or quarrel cannot breach your gates. When you live from the I AM, you realize cleansing is a revision of your inner state—an assumed holiness that causes your outer world to reflect that sacred order.