Building Your Inner Tabernacle

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the tabernacle is not a tent in the desert but the soul in quiet awareness. The shittim wood boards are steadfast beliefs set upright in consciousness; their exact measurements remind you that every feeling, idea, and decision must stand in proportion to your true I AM. The tenons and sockets symbolize the connecting and supporting principles that hold your inner dwelling together; silver sockets point to the immutable truth that your state of awareness is wired to stability, not spectacle. The twenty boards on each side form a surrounding temple, the eight boards at the corners define secure boundaries—holiness and separation from the noisy crowd of thoughts. The bars of shittim wood, five for a side, and the middle bar that runs from end to end, indicate how unity of purpose and alignment yields a single structure under grace. Overlaying the boards with gold is the illumining imagination, the way your subjective sense of self becomes radiant with divine life when you desire and dwell in the pattern shown on the mount. The instruction to rear up the tabernacle is an invitation: awaken the temple within, and let the Presence spring forth.