Inner Lamp of Everlasting Light

Neville's Inner Vision

Exodus 27:21 invites us to notice that the lamp exists not as a distant ceremony, but as the living light of your own awareness kept before the I AM. The tabernacle and the veil are symbols; the true action is your steady attention from evening to morning: the moment you close the outer doors and insist that nothing but consciousness remains. In Neville's sense, the 'testimony' before which the lamp shines is the inner witness that you are, here and now, the recognition of God as I AM. When you revise your state to feel that you are the keeper and not the kept, you begin to tend the flame; you do not wait for an external sign but declare, I am the light in me, and this light endures beyond the night of fear or lack. The statute, then, is simply the habit of remaining awake to your true nature, a perpetual inner service that changes your world by changing your inner atmosphere.