Kingdom Within: The Inner City

Neville's Inner Vision

I see that the ten horns, the beast, and the harlot are symbols of my inner dispositions, not distant powers. The desolation and fire are the breaking of old identifications by the consciousness that imagines them. When the verse says God hath put in their hearts to fulfill His will, it says that opposing thoughts and passions in my mind cooperate to bring about the fulfillment of a higher order I already accept as real. The great city which reigns over the kings of the earth is the ego's city—my habitual sense of identity housed in outward power. As I cease giving separate authority to fear, greed, or status, those powers yield to the quiet sovereignty of the I AM present in me. The words of God are fulfilled when I inhabit a new inner state, and the outer world aligns with that inner assumption. The beast and the horns become the energy of attention I direct toward the realization of the kingdom within. Thus the purification is not punishment but an inward reorganization of consciousness toward divine sovereignty.