In Ezekiel 9, the prophet sees a striking vision: a man clothed in linen, equipped with a writing kit, is commanded by God to go through Jerusalem and place a mark on the foreheads of those who “sigh and cry” over the abominations committed within the city. Those without the mark are handed over to destruction. When interpreted through the teachings of Neville Goddard , this passage sheds its historical weight and becomes a deeply psychological drama—a reflection of the awakening of the individual soul from material consciousness to divine imagination. Jerusalem as the Mind For Neville, Jerusalem symbolises the mind or consciousness —not a city of stone, but the inner world of man. The abominations happening within are symbolic of corrupt states of thought : fear, lack, dependency on the outer world, and forgetfulness of the creative power within. Those who “sigh and cry” are not external mourners, but inner aspects of the self that long f...