Inner King's Petition

Neville's Inner Vision

From the vantage point of the I AM, the scene is not about a monarch in a distant land but about your own state of consciousness issuing a call. Nehemiah's petition mirrors the moment you decide to re-create your inner city: you speak as one who has found favor in the sight of your God-consciousness and therefore is granted permission to act upon a vision. The king's consent represents the alignment of your faculties—will, faith, imagination—when you declare, 'send me.' The city of my fathers' sepulchres stands for the structures of your established beliefs and memories; to build it is to reframe them, to reimpose a new order through inner conviction. The act of asking is the decisive decision to move from thought to form; imagination now becomes the architect, and your life becomes the building site. If you want a different city, inner or outer, you must cultivate the inner petition: feel yourself as the agent of the decree, hear the approving voice within, and proceed as if the work were already in progress.