Inner Meeting at the Mercy Seat

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture the ark as the living center of your consciousness. The mercy seat rests above the inner order you keep—the 'testimony' you have accepted as true in your heart. The cherubim are not distant beings but the two poles of your attention: one eye on action, the other on feeling; their wings shade the seat and keep distractions at bay, while their faces look toward the center, declaring unity in purpose. When you acknowledge that God meets you there, you are recognizing that the I AM—the awareness that you ARE—speaks from between these two forces. The commandment you hold is the living memory of your covenant: what you refuse to imagine about yourself, and to what you consent. The encounter is a present tense event you can enter at any moment by assuming the state of communion now. In this inner temple, holiness is not separation from life but the clarity that allows mercy to flow—toward yourself and toward others—through your abiding loyalty to the I AM.