Inner Curtains of Presence

Neville's Inner Vision

In this reading the eleven curtains symbolize the movements of your consciousness surrounding the tabernacle, the living temple of awareness. The tent over the tabernacle is your field of I AM, a steady presence that cannot be shaken. Goats’ hair, humble material, marks ordinary thoughts that would veil the light; yet their uniform size teaches you to harmonize every thought and feeling within one sovereign state. The boundary becomes not a barrier of lack but a clarified field within which the divine can dwell. When you mentally revise your inner scenery to reflect fullness—safety, love, certainty—the boundary dissolves as a barrier and becomes a garden in which presence can move. The outer curtain translates to external events only as you permit your inner state to govern it; true worship arises from aligning the self with I AM, not performing rituals outside. Do not worry about the arrangement of the curtains; trust that your imagination, rightly held, forms the sacred enclosure within which you live as the Presence you seek.