Inner Covenant Priest Within

Neville's Inner Vision

In this passage, the speaker’s 'we' reveals a state of consciousness in which the I AM—the LORD—remains our God and we remain faithful. The priests and Levites symbolize inner faculties and disciplined attention that attend to the work of mind, not a distant ceremony. The morning and evening burn offerings, the incense, and the ordered bread on the pure table represent continuous, mindful devotion, purification of thought, and illumination of awareness. The golden candlestick with lamps signifies the ever-present light of consciousness heard within, keeping vigil over our inner temple. To claim 'we keep the charge of the LORD our God' is to affirm loyalty to the inner covenant—the alignment of perception with truth. The line about others forsaking Him points to the contrast between a mind that perpetually returns to its Source and one that forgets. Thus, the vicissitudes of ritual become symbolic of inner fidelity: the Presence of God as inner awareness, active through steady worship of imagination and feeling-as-if. When you inhabit this inner temple, you worship the One within in every moment.