Inner Sanctity vs Pretence

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the inner sense, the prophets discern a state of mind masquerading as holiness while the heart harbors unclean appetites. 'Sanctify themselves' and 'purify themselves' are not commands to perform rituals; they reveal a posture of mind pretending purity while nurturing hidden cravings. The 'gardens behind one tree in the midst' stands for the private, forgotten corner of consciousness where denial and appetite meet. 'Eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse' are symbolic acts of moral compromise—habits you pretend to judge in others, yet quietly indulge in yourself. The line 'shall be consumed together' indicates the self-destructive result of living a lie: the inner life and the outward shown life consume one another. Your I AM, the only true you, does not demand outward show, but integrity of consciousness. When you insist on sanctity apart from waking to your real impulses, you split reality and invite collapse; true sanctity is unity, where inner dispositions align with outer words and deeds. The moment you accept that alignment as your lived experience, the illusion dissolves and your life becomes the natural expression of the one I AM within.