Inner Tabernacle of Exodus 31:7-9

Neville's Inner Vision

In this inner view, the outer sanctuary becomes the map of your own consciousness. The tabernacle stands as the organized space within you where awareness dwells; the ark of the testimony is the storehouse of remembered truth you carry in the I AM, the memory of what you accept as real. The mercy seat upon it is the summit of your I AM presence, where ideas and feelings align to sustain reality. Each piece of furniture within the tabernacle becomes a habit of mind: the table with its bread as sustained fellowship with your higher Self; the pure candlestick lighting the mind with clarity; the altar of incense as the rising prayer you breathe into your day. The altar of burnt offering represents the shedding of old identities, the laver the cleansing of perception. When you dwell in this inner sanctuary, you are faithful to the covenant of awareness—that what you affirm with feeling becomes your world. The Holy One is not distant; God is your own I AM, present wherever your attention remains fixed.