Inner Weighing of Sacred Wealth

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture the scene as a symbolic drama playing out within your own consciousness. The words about watching and keeping the vessels are not about distant rites, but about the way you guard and test the treasures of your inner life. 'Watch ye, and keep them' becomes a discipline of attention: observe your thoughts, beliefs, and desires, and keep only what serves toward the temple of your I AM. The 'chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel' are not external men but the inner authorities—the Christ within and the wise parts of your mind—who weigh and certify what truly belongs in the sanctuary of God, your Jerusalem. The 'weight of the silver, and the gold, and the vessels' represents your inner wealth: virtues, ideas, and powers you have gathered. To 'bring them to Jerusalem unto the house of our God' is to align these riches with the governing consciousness, to let them be used in true worship rather than scattered in the noise of impulse. Obedience and faithfulness are not duty; they are the steady alignment of outward activity with your inner reality, the moment-by-moment act of choosing the state that is already done.