Inner Holiness Reexamined

Neville's Inner Vision

To the seeker, the Lord's word through Haggai is a mirror of your inner state. Holy flesh on a garment and ordinary bread are symbols, not sources of holiness. If holiness were carried by clothing, touching bread would make bread holy; if uncleanness rested in a dead body, contact would render all clean things unclean. The priests answer in the text points to a deeper truth: holiness and uncleanness are states of consciousness, not commodities. In Neville's terms, the law is your inner atmosphere; what you imagine you are, you become. When you move through life assuming a state of pure I AM, every touch bears the stamp of that reality. When fear or grief rules, ordinary things seem defiled. The act of touching is not polluted or sanctified by the object; it is colored by your inner Being. Therefore the boundary between sacred and profane dissolves once you realize you are the source of meaning. Your imagination, rightly felt, shifts the condition of every moment. You can revise by returning to the feeling that you are already holy, and your world must conform.