“Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.” (Ps 122:7 )

“He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.” (Pr. 25:28 )

Second to Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan’s most widely read book is The Holy War, a timely and timeless allegory featuring two main characters, the city of Mansoul (man’s soul) and its mortal enemy, Diabolus. Mansoul has 5 gates: Eye-Gate, Ear-Gate, Feel-Gate, Mouth-Gate, Nose-Gate. The wallss are so constructed that an invader such as Sin (another character in the story) cannot enter the city from the outside. Only if the gates are opened from within can Sin breach the walls and take over the city.

Realization has to do with keeping the integrity of the 5 spiritual senses permanently intact, united in oneness of purpose, securely dwelling in heavenly places. This means not making stolen visits to the secret place of the Most High, but dwelling there, at one with the Mind of God, not allowing any of my God-given senses to fall into a material mode of Feeling, Seeing, Hearing, etc., which is a state of warfare with Mind, or at-two-ment with Mind, not at-one-ment.

“If it is true that nerves have sensation, that matter has intelligence, that the material organism causes the eyes to see and the ears to hear, then, when the body is dematerialized, these faculties must be lost, for their immortality is not in Spirit; whereas the fact is that only through dematerialization and spiritualization of thought can these faculties be conceived of as immortal.” (Science & Health, p. 211)

CS Hymnal, 144:

In atmosphere of Love divine,
We live, and move, and breathe;
Though mortal eyes may see it not,
‘Tis sense that would deceive.

The mortal sense we must destroy,
If we would bring to light
The wonders of eternal Mind,
Where sense is lost in sight.