Inner Gates of Zion
Psalms 87:2-4 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Psalms 87 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Psalm 87:2-4 lifts Zion as God’s favored inner city, proclaims glorious things about the city of God, and suggests that diverse nations are born within that inner consciousness.
Neville's Inner Vision
In the present moment, Zion is your state of consciousness, the gates are the openings through which you enter awareness. The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob, a statement that the openings of awareness are valued above outward lineage. When the verse declares glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God, it is the living acknowledgment that your inner state is radiant and known to the Self. The line, I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me, points to the inner ‘enemies’ of limitation—fear, doubt, separation—being named only to the awakened mind. To know me is to recognize these energies as currents within your psyche, not absolute reality. Behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there, signals that every outward condition you meet is a birth in your mind. The birth is not external; it is your inner conversion, your realization that the city of God contains all nations as inhabitants, welcomed by love.
Practice This Now
Imaginative_act: Sit quietly and assume, 'I am the city of God, and I enter Zion’s gates now.' Then revise any sense of separation by declaring, 'All the nations named are born within my consciousness, and I am the one who births them into awareness—feel it real.'
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