Measuring the Inner Jerusalem

Neville's Inner Vision

I do not read Zechariah's vision as geography but as a diagram of my inner state. The man with the measuring line is the I AM within, inspecting the boundaries of my awareness. To measure Jerusalem is to fix, by assumption, the breadth and length of the inner city I inhabit. Whither goest thou? is the question I ask about where my attention travels; the answer shows me the degree to which I have accepted the Kingdom of God as present here and now. If I insist on lack, the measure shrinks; if I revise with the knowing that the Father’s presence fills every corner, the line lengthens and fields enlarge. Jerusalem’s measurements are not statistics but commitments—renewal, presence, and the full creation of reality through imagination. Thus the vision becomes a method: I choose the horizon of my inner Jerusalem, and by feeling it real I baptize my world with the consciousness of the Kingdom within.