Return to the Inner City

Neville's Inner Vision

In this line you hear the tempo of a people returning—not merely to cities but to the assuredness of the I AM. The priests, the Levites, the singers, and all Israel are spoken of as if they are already settled, because in Neville’s reading time and place are states of consciousness. The seventh month is a symbol of completion, the moment you interiorly inhabit the city of your birth, the inner certitude that you are home. Exile is the old posture of separation; return is the decision to rest in the awareness that your desire is already fulfilled. When you dwell in the city of your mind, you align with harmony, unity, and community within you, and your outer life follows suit. So you are invited to see yourself already settled, loved, and whole by the simple act of imagining, and to awaken to the truth that your inner city produces your days.