Assembling the Inner Temple

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture yourself as David within the chamber of your own I AM. The Princes of Israel are the faculties you trust to steward your life: imagination, will, memory, perception, and desire. When they gather to Jerusalem—the seat of your awareness—you declare a radical intention: to build a house of rest for the ark, the covenant of the LORD, within. The ark stands for the living presence you know as God, and the footstool is the solid ground of your attention on which that presence rests. To say 'made ready for the building' is to admit you are preparing the mind, clearing doubt, and aligning belief with outcome. When you stand and say, 'Hear me, my brethren, and my people,' you are addressing the inner actors and ordering them by assumption. The temple is not a structure from without but a state you inhabit from within, created by the conviction that you already dwell with God. Therefore, return to the remembered state: the ark is within, the temple is prepared, and every action flows from that realized presence.