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 the "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 towards your brother, the distrust of your sister.  Babylon is the limiting beliefs you hold on to, the ceilings you refuse to break through and the cruel words of shame and disgust you whisper to yourself when no one is there. 

These inner strongholds are Babylon in its purest form. Those inner strongholds collect into communities, into cultures, into institutions. Low vibrations of envy, guile, mischief, and rigidity take form as real-world structures and pain.

But imagine if we begin to break these inner strongholds.

Imagine Babylon vanishing, not by toppling an external tyrant first, but by changing the internal weather. Imagine a new light, a new people, new places. New times that this world has not yet seen. A time of peace and balance. 

Meanwhile; Zion is often imagined as a distant place — an imagined future where burdens fall away, offering relief and infinite bliss. A place only reserved for the remnant that holds JAH's commandments.  The ancestors spoke of Zion like a dream to be reached one day, sometime after transition (death). But what if Zion is not just a place you go after death? What if Zion is a state of mind — a now, a way of being? 

We delay Zion in our lives. We set it off as an event in the future: one day I’ll heal, one day I’ll forgive, one day I’ll stop doubting myself. Meanwhile, we keep carrying the same inner patterns that birthed the very prisons we blame.

And just as Babylon is widespread, Zion is rare. Few are truly willing to face their traumas, confront their shadows, humble their egos, and do the daily work of becoming. The remnant who commit to this path — they are the ones cultivating Zion now. They are preparing the soil of their hearts, mending what was broken, and living in the intelligence Jah placed within us.

Zion is not only a promise for “someday.” It is a present reality that only the willing will touch. And it begins not with external revolutions, but with the revolution of the self.

A worldwide, revolutionary remembering: the birthrights Jah already gives — abundance, peace, light — manifest when the inner landscape is tended to.

So today, let us affirm: 

I now release myself from inner strongholds of self-doubt, self-hate, and self-sabotage.

I now cultivate a spirit of confidence, accountability, and self-love to bring forth inner liberation.

I release envy, guile, and mischief from my heart.

I welcome the energies of love, joy, patience, and thanksgiving, which radiates everywhere I go. 

I see my brothers and sisters as a reflection of myself. Worthy of love, respect, patience and admiration. 

Selah.

Give thanks, 

A 🧿🪶