Jerusalem Within: Inner Exile Reclaimed

Neville's Inner Vision

Jerusalem is not a city of bricks but your constant state of awareness where God dwells. To forget Jerusalem is to pretend you are separate from the I AM, and then the right hand—the faculty of doing—loses its cunning, becoming clumsy and anxious. To forget also means the tongue cannot utter truth, so speech leans toward fear or lack. The vow in these verses asserts that all life must be governed by one remembered reality: Jerusalem as the inner kingdom. Exile is merely a habit of identifying with conditions rather than with the Presence within; return is a decisive revision of memory, reorienting attention to the source of all joy. When you choose to remember Jerusalem above your chief joy, you align mind, heart, and deed with the Living I AM. The moment you assume that Jerusalem is your essential joy, thoughts re-center, feelings soften, and actions proceed with clarity. Practice yields reality: keep Jerusalem in mind as your sovereign state, and watch your experiences fall into harmony with that unity. Your inner city becomes the ground of manifestation, and all lack dissolves as you dwell in that remembered Presence.