Inner Cities Of Refuge

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the Numbers account, the six cities for refuge are not places on a map but states of consciousness. The manslayer is the restless ego habit that harms, and the refuge is your I AM, the merciful awareness that cannot condemn. The Levites and their forty-eight cities symbolize the architecture of inner law—the countless inner spaces where mercy resides and justice quietly keeps order. When a troubling thought or impulse presses in, you do not argue with it; you imagine a city of refuge and step into it in awareness. In that interior room, you forgive, you align with your true self, you allow the movement of compassion to govern action. The instruction to add the suburbs means the mercy is not a single point but a surrounding atmosphere that encompasses your day. Practice: assume you are already in refuge, feel the calm, and let the impulse to react dissolve in the light of I AM.