Incense of Inner Worship

Neville's Inner Vision

Let us read these verses as a map of inner consciousness. The spices—stacte, onycha, galbanum, and frankincense—represent states of awareness you enlist in your life. In Neville’s language they are not external ingredients but inner faculties: attentiveness, receptivity, unburdened faith, and purified desire, weighed with equal importance so one does not overshadow another. To form a perfume 'after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy' is to cultivate a harmony of your inner powers until they operate as one fragrant presence. 'Beat some of it very small' invites you to compress your attention into precise, quiet breaths and thoughts, until the fragrance becomes tangible in your chest and imagination. When you place it 'before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation' you place the result before your inner witness, the I AM that you are. There, in the meeting place, God meets you—not as a distant event, but as your own invoked awareness. The holiness described is not a ritual; it is the inner state you hold by willingly aligning with I AM.