Bronze Foundations of Inner Worship

Neville's Inner Vision

Exodus 38:29-31 unfolds as a picture of your inner temple built by awareness. The brass of the offering is not metal but the fixed, unwavering certainty you hold about who you are in God—the I AM that you awaken to. The seventy talents and two thousand four hundred shekels become the weight of a steadfast consciousness, set aside for a single sacred purpose: to erect the door, the altar, the grate, and the vessels of your inner worship. When you conceive sockets for the door, and pins for the court, you are practicing the mental architecture by which consciousness secures form. The court’s sockets and pins symbolize the anchoring points of belief and habit that keep your temple standing through life's tempests. In this light, God is not outside you but the I AM becoming aware of itself. The act of building is the act of becoming aware of awareness. The brass is your constancy; the worship is the presence you feel when you rest in the conviction that you are already what you seek.