The Threshold of Worship

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville's telling, the throne of David is a state of consciousness choosing to worship. Araunah’s ground represents inner soil—conditions of mind ready to be claimed by the king of awareness. The plague is the restless thought-form in the collective life that longs to move through the body of a people. When David says, 'To buy the threshing floor... to build an altar unto the LORD,' he announces the turning of outer event into inner decision. The altar is not a place but a maintained state of attention on the I AM, the sense 'I AM' as the living affirmation that you are unharmed by fear or lack. By purchasing, by dedicating a circle of attention, by offering sacrifice—here, the letting go of short-term need—he stays the heated energy of the plague. The law of assumption says: imagine the thing already done, feel its reality, hold the will steady, and the world like a fever breaks. Thus covenant loyalty means remaining true to the inner purpose, not the outer demand, until mercy is made present.