Inner Order of Divine Service
Ezra 6:18 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Ezra 6 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Ezra 6:18 shows the priests and Levites placed in proper divisions to serve God in Jerusalem, signaling the need to organize one's inner faculties for sacred work. In Neville's view, this order is an arrangement of consciousness aligning with the I AM.
Neville's Inner Vision
Within you, Ezra's scene is the outline of your own inner organization. The priests and Levites set in their divisions are your higher faculties and your practical mind, arranged in proper courses for the service of God, which is the I AM present in you. Jerusalem stands as the focal point of consciousness—the center where all your awake energies converge to worship through conduct and thought. The 'book of Moses' is the inner law you have accepted, the pattern you rehearse in mind. When you mentally assign each faculty to its place, you are not rearranging a temple in time; you are rearranging your inner state. The act of order becomes an act of faith: you are declaring, here and now, that the I AM governs your inner temple. If you maintain this alignment in imagination, the outer world will reflect the harmony you have established inside; you will wake up to the kingdom within, one orderly movement at a time. Remember: imagination creates reality, and you can revise fear into trust by feeling the temple already ordered.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and imagine you are appointing inner priests and Levites to their proper courses in your mind's temple; feel the I AM at the center directing their service. Revise any scattered thoughts into orderly movements and observe how your inner world begins to hum with sacred order.
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