Inner Priest, Pure Presence

Neville's Inner Vision

In this reading the priests Ezekiel names are not men with offices but states of consciousness you carry within. The command that they not come near the Most Holy is a statement about your inner condition: until your inner life is pure, your I AM cannot act as priest in your temple. Presence is the nearness of awareness to itself, untainted by former acts. When you notice yourself clinging to old abominations, bear the memory without judgment and revise your situation by assuming a higher self. Say to yourself: I am the I AM, and I stand near the Holy within me. Let that assumption soften into feeling and allow the old self to fade as the new you enters the Holy Place. The shame you bear is not punishment but a guide to correction—an inner cue to align with the divine Presence. By maintaining the inner posture of purity and separation from lower states, you become the vessel through which God operates. In time, the boundary dissolves: you are near, you are holy, and the old acts dissolve in the light of your new I AM.