Redefining Babylon and Zion: Inner Stronghold and Inner Liberation
Babylon — a symbol of evil. Babylon — a symbol of terror. Babylon — a symbol of confusion. For many of us, Babylon is seen and known as th e "system”. A system that profits where the soul loses and dictates who is allowed at the stream to drink. This system has existed across epochs of mankind. Some parts of Babylon you can touch and others you can't. Whether it be the brick walls of courts, the police station, the machinery of law, and other parts you feel only as micro-aggressions, unspoken codes, or the slow rot of soul-betrayal. The truth is: Babylon could not be externalised unless it first lived inside of us. The system of oppression, the small cruelties, the inner scripts of self-doubt, the self-sabotage that is found in the chambers of our own minds and hearts. So many point at Babylon as a “system” separate from themselves yet never realizing how much of it still lives within. Babylon is also the self-hatred you carry, the resentment you nurse, the jealousy towar...
