Inner Tabernacle Boards

Neville's Inner Vision

Within your consciousness, the tabernacle is a living inner house and the boards are your states of awareness standing upright in order. The command to set tenons in one board, facing another, is not woodwork but discipline: your thoughts are aligned and held by fixed points, so no stray wind of fear or desire can overturn the structure. Each board’s length and breadth speak of proportion—life arranged in perfect measure beneath the I AM, the Presence you call forth with attention. The shittim wood stands for vulnerability and resilience; it bears the weight of the holy word yet remains the instrument of your will. When you imagine the boards standing in their place, you are imagining an inner covenant—loyalty to a Presence that travels with you. The two tenons symbolize the two fixed anchors of consciousness: faith and love, or perception and intention, joined so one supports the other. As you revise and feel it real, you shift from mere memory of scripture to living, intimate experience of the temple within. The walls are not external walls but the steady, unforfeitable awareness through which God’s Presence may dwell.