Inner Ark of Joy and Presence

Neville's Inner Vision

I see the ark as the very Presence of God within my being. Bringing it up from the house of Obed-edom is the inner movement of consciousness: the I AM returning to the center of my mind. When God helps the Levites—i.e., when the right states of attention enter—my inner offering is complete: I give seven bullocks and seven rams of fear, of doubt, of limitation, and freely worship. I am clothed in linen, and I wear an ephod of clarity; my faculties—Levites, singers, master of song—move as one in harmony. Israel, the whole of my belief, rises in joyous crescendo: shouts, harps, and psalteries of praise. As the ark enters the city of David—the throne of my own I AM—the outer observer (Michal) may criticise, but her gaze cannot alter the inward triumph. The Presence is established; I live by assumption, feeling the wish fulfilled, and the world becomes the echo of that inner worship.