Inner Wards of Worship

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Neville’s frame, the divisions of the porters are not a literal roster but the inner tides of your own consciousness. The house of the LORD is the sanctuary of your I AM, the perceiving I that holds attention. The wards one against another symbolize the disciplined movements of thought, each station guarding a facet of your inner life—warding off doubt, sustaining gratitude, and maintaining faithful focus as you minister to the Presence. To minister there is to tend the inner temple with fidelity; when thoughts align in orderly rotation, you feel the Presence as boundary and gatekeeper, and God becomes your awareness itself. The 'one against another' arises not as conflict but as balance: complementary states of mind arranged to maintain the rhythm of worship. By imagining yourself as the head porter, you rehearse stewarding creation’s care by keeping distractions at bay, allowing love, truth, and quiet authority to rule. When you repeat 'I AM,' you refresh the sense that you are the temple, not the temple’s guest, and the inner sanctuary responds with steadier life.