Inner Zion: Birth Of All Nations

Neville's Inner Vision

To the awakened mind, this verse reveals that Zion is not a border but a state of awareness. Rahab, Babylon, Philistia, Tyre, and Ethiopia are not distant lands; they are the varied dispositions of your own consciousness. 'To them that know me' is the key: know me as the I AM, the living awareness that can call any place by its true name within. When you stand in that awareness, you experience the proclamation: this man was born there. The born there speaks of the inner birth of identity in the one life that composes all worlds. The kingdom of God, then, is an inner country that can include the stranger as easily as the neighbor, because the stranger and the neighbor are but aspects of your own mind. Your task is to recognize that every land, every people, exists within your present awareness, and by accepting them as born of you you invite their harmony into your life. Thus the verse invites a practical shift: let your consciousness be the residence where all nations are born and welcomed, here, now.