Inner Return From Babylon
Psalms 137:8-9 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Psalms 137 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The psalm foresees Babylon's doom and the joy of justice toward that tyranny. In Neville's frame, this is a metaphor for how inner states create outward outcomes and how true judgment comes from awareness.
Neville's Inner Vision
Consider the daughter of Babylon as a figure of mind under bondage, a state of fear and externals bound consciousness. The verse is not a cruelty but a map of the inner law: belief becomes experience, and the 'enemy' within is a signal to awaken. When you imagine a day of deliverance, you are not supporting harm but declaring the end of inner tyranny. The one who would reward that cruelty is your higher self, returning to you the energy you have invested in believing you are controlled by powers outside yourself. In Zion's return you discover you have never left your own kingdom; you merely awaken to the fact that the kingdom is within and the laws of cause and effect operate by your assumptions. So true justice arises when you assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled, release grievance, and stand in the living I AM. The destruction of the old 'Babylon' is the erosion of limitation, a shift in your state of consciousness that makes present freedom possible.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and assume the feeling of freedom now: I am in Zion within, I am free. Revise the story of exile by forgiving the past and feel it real as the present I AM.
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