One Tent, One I Am

Neville's Inner Vision

Exodus 36:16-18 appears as a teaching in consciousness. The five and the six curtains are not separate fabrics but states of mind—desires, fears, memories, and opportunities—each vying for attention. When you lay fifty loops along the edge of the first and couple it with fifty loops on the second, you are performing a mental act: you connect your disparate thoughts into one scene. The brass taches symbolize unyielding faith that binds the whole inward field into a single, sturdy temple. Thus the tent becomes one because you have willed it so with imagination and feeling. The Presence of God is the I AM, that inner witness who knows the truth of unity. Worship, then, is not external ritual but living in that awareness, letting all parts of yourself acknowledge the same Life. Covenant loyalty is your steadfast allegiance to that single reality, regardless of outward appearances.