Dwelling in the Inner Tabernacle

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of Hosea’s words as a doorway into your own consciousness. The LORD thy God is not a distant deity but the I AM within you, the awareness that can be carried wherever you are. The land of Egypt represents the old sense of self you have left behind; to be led to dwell in tabernacles is to maintain a portable, ever-present posture of worship—an inner shelter that shifts with your thought, not a fixed ceremony. The prophets, multiplied visions, and similitudes are your inner pictures rising from imagination, guiding you back to your true state. Is there iniquity in Gilead? notion of error in belief? Certainly; vanity arises when you rely on exterior sacrifices, or on forms outside your awareness. Gilgal’s altars becoming heaps in the furrows of the field show that external rites crumble when consciousness remains unupdated. The reinterpretation is simple: restoration comes by turning inward, by assuming the tent of awareness as your reality and letting the visions of God—your inspired ideas—dominate your experience. You are not a spectator of history; you are the living I AM, author of every event.