Inner Servants, Sacred Order

Neville's Inner Vision

Within every man, the people named in Ezra are not far-off literal faces but inner capacities. The children of Solomon's servants are the disciplined thoughts that guard the temple of awareness; the Nethinims are the humble tasks of service demanded by your inner worship. The total 392 is the sign of a complete, balanced order in your psyche—a council of qualities honoring holiness, purity, and separation from idle imagining. When you understand that the I AM—the Presence—dwells here and now, you begin to see that these names are states of consciousness you have welcomed or neglected. If you feel lack or impurity, you have only changed your inner measurement; revise by assuming you are already crowned with the purification and that your inner servants are faithfully at their posts, maintaining the sanctuary of your awareness. In imagination, the outer page becomes your inward life: the temple functioned because the master within kept order; your worship becomes present experience when you cease looking for God elsewhere and turn your gaze inward.