Inner Sanctuary Restored

Neville's Inner Vision

To the inner reader, the 'first father' and the 'teachers' are not distant ancestors but states of your own consciousness. Their sin is your belief in separation from the I AM, the inner sanctum where you stand as awareness. When these beliefs transgress against the divine order, the inner princes of the sanctuary are profaned, and Jacob and Israel become figures of a mind at exile—cut off from the living presence and exposed to reproach. The verse therefore speaks of a costly consequence: a perceived curse and the experience of judgment manifesting as lack, delay, or opposition in your world. Yet notice this: judgment is not a verdict laid on you from without, but a displacement of your attention away from the source of life. By identifying with guilt you unknowingly sustain the separation; by returning your attention to the I AM, you invite the correction. The true Israel is your awakened consciousness, Jacob the outer garment you wear—reconciled when you stop resisting the divine order within. The path back is simple: refuse to identify with the old self and choose the interior sanctity now.