Inner Doors to Presence

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Ezekiel’s temple of imagery, the doors of the side chambers are not doors in a building of stone alone but doors in your own mind. The 'place that was left' is the gap in your current consciousness—an open place where the Presence can enter when you turn your attention homeward. The north and the south doors symbolize opposed streams of thought or habit; you must keep them oriented by a single intention: holiness as your natural state. The breadth of five cubits round about marks the boundary you set with imagination—enough space to walk in reverent awareness, not to wander in doubt. When you accept that the sanctuary exists within you, you worship truly by dwelling in the I AM, the awareness that you are already inhabited by God. The doors, though plain, serve as gateways through which grace flows when you assume the state of fullness and feel it real. Your practice is not to change outward events but to revise your inner sense of self until Presence becomes your habitual atmosphere.