12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.

13 Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.

i.e., study well the topography of the City, and the relation of one part to another.

14 For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.

The same idea is now carried on to the “Civitas Dei” and “the Holy Mountain.” The City is built upon the Mountain and is surrounded by mountains. This is as it should be. The City is on the North flank (verse 2) of the Holy Mountain. This is the Quarter of Power. The distinction of the city is that God is known in her (verse 3); the Temple (verse 9) is in the midst of the city, and the central Truth it enshrines is that God is Love. God is our guide (verse 14), unto death, and through it. Since there is no real death for the children of God, this guidance will be in perpetuity.
Guidance — see Ps. XXV: 8. We come to seeing what we only first heard of (verse 8).

“The North” (verse 2) — the reason the city of The Great King is said to be on the north side of the Mountain of Holiness — or Mountain of Wholeness — is in the meaning of the word itself.

Conscience is a substantive from the adjective conscious, and therefore denotes “being-one-with.” Hence the North side of the Mountain denotes the

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