Inner Coverings of the Self

Neville's Inner Vision

Exodus 26:14 presents two coverings for the tent, and in your inward life they are two states of consciousness you choose to wear. The red ram-skins speak of life-force and the sacrifice you give to color your world with meaning; they are the vitality that makes experience felt as real. The upper badger-skin cover signifies a further screen, a separation you erect between appearances and the One Presence within. Neville teaches that these coverings are not outer fabrics but inner dispositions—beliefs, images, and habits of thought. When you dwell in the I AM, you are aware that the tent, your body, and its world are framed by consciousness, not by random circumstance. Holiness is the conscious recognition that you are not merely in the world but in the Presence that makes the world possible. True worship, then, is the act of assuming the state of the Presence now: feel yourself already where God dwells, and let the coverings dissolve into the light of awareness. The outer shell becomes harmless by your realization that you are the I AM.