Inner Tabernacle of Exodus 36:23-24

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine the tabernacle not as a building of stone, but as your own state of consciousness. The twenty boards are the steady dispositions you hold in mind—the fixed ideas of loyalty, worship, and your sense of divine presence that form the outer structure of your life. The forty sockets of silver, beneath the boards, are the invisible supports of awareness—the trust, gratitude, and faith that undergird every position you take in your world. Two sockets under each board's tenons signify the two-way relationship between belief and embodiment: each idea has a hold on your living life and on your life's actions. The south side placement hints at receptivity to the divine I AM; the whole framework stands to keep the Presence of God within your borders, not outside. When you contemplate these boards and sockets as states of consciousness, you realize the tabernacle is within you, not in a distant temple. Your imagination acts by arranging these inner boards and sockets into a dwelling for God, a constitution of consciousness that sustains true worship and covenant loyalty.