Inner Covenant Feast of Life

Neville's Inner Vision

Deuteronomy 12:15-23 places no outer deprivation for nourishment, yet it invites you to read appetite through the eyes of consciousness. All foods are lawful in your inner gates, yet the blood—life—must not be eaten; the life remains as the energy behind every sensation. The commanded place where God’s name is chosen becomes your inner temple, where you, your imagination, and every facet of self gather to rejoice before the Lord of awareness. When your desire to eat flesh arises—your soul’s longing—imagine that you are feeding not your body but your awareness, and so you consent to the form but not to the enthronement of desire. If your world expands and you say, 'I will eat,' you may, but you are to do so with the understanding that life remains the substance behind form, and you pour forth the old blood as water, releasing attachment. The instruction to keep the Levite in your gates is a reminder that your inner faculties—reason, compassion, imagination—must be tended with reverence. In this light, true worship is alignment, covenant loyalty is maintained by steady inner acts of assumption.