Inner Builders of the Wall

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture this: the names on Nehemiah's list are not distant clericalities but portraits of your own states of consciousness. Melatiah, Jadon, the goldsmiths, and the apothecaries stand for the differing faculties within you—memory, craftsmanship, healing, and remedy. The wall they repair is the boundary of your inner city, the pattern by which you order your thoughts and desires. When you dwell in the I AM—the governor on this side of the river—you align every faction of your being with a single purpose: renewal. The broad wall signals not a rigid boundary but a robust field of awareness expanding to embrace more of life. Unity arises as each faculty fulfills its appointed function in support of the whole image you are choosing to inhabit. The ancient act of rebuilding becomes a modern act of inner creation: you imagine the work completed, and as you feel the emotion of that completion—satisfaction, security, quiet power—the outer 'city' begins to reflect it. In Neville's terms, imagination is creative being; your present experience is the outward sign of your inward assumption. By deciding that this renewal has already taken place, you awaken it into existence.