The Inner Gathering of People

Neville's Inner Vision

The verse is a map of consciousness. The LORD of hosts is the I AM within you, the living awareness that hosts all your experiences. When you hear that 'it shall come to pass'—that crowds of people and the inhabitants of many cities shall come—you are being reminded that your inner world can gather the conditions of your desires. The cities are not places out there; they are the many aspects of your life you have not yet united in feeling. Each city represents a department: health, work, love, creativity, friendship. When you persist in the assumption that this gathering is already yours, you awaken that unseen host and invite the corresponding circumstances to appear in your outer life. The Presence of God is the constant awareness that you are, right now, complete; the Kingdom of God is the order you bring into your own mind by dwelling in the feeling that all your desires are fulfilled. This prophecy is fulfilled in the living present when imagination is believed and felt as real, and when you act from that inner reality.