Inner Mercy Seat of Awareness

Neville's Inner Vision

To the inner sight, the mercy seat is not a throne of gold in a temple but a state of consciousness you occupy now. The two cherubim at its ends are the two palms of awareness—one lifting your gaze outward, one guiding it inward—set in the balance by your awareness of I AM. When you close your eyes and imagine yourself seated upon the gold, you are not begging a distant God; you are recognizing that God, the I AM, dwells as the field of your own awareness. The two cubits and a half by one cubit and a half speak of proportion: the inner space is large enough to contain the fullness of divinity when you dwell there with quiet certainty. The beaten work of the cherubim suggests refinement through feeling and assumption: each day you hammer your attention until it shines with being. By assumption, revision, and feeling-it-real, you awaken to the covenant already kept within you, and you discover that the presence you seek is the presence you are.