Inner Gathering of the Self

Neville's Inner Vision

In the Neville lens, Joel's call is not a public rite but an invitation to examine your inner state. 'Gather the people' becomes gathering the parts of consciousness—memory, desire, fear, longing—into one focal point. 'Sanctify the congregation' means cleanse belief, release stale identities, and affirm that awareness is sacred. 'Weep between the porch and the altar' marks the inner ministers acknowledging pain while staying in the presence of I AM. When you plead, 'Spare thy people,' you are not praying to a distant deity but inviting your own consciousness to spare you from the sense of separation and lack. The worry that 'the heathen should rule over them' is the old thought that life happens to you from without; the practice is to revise that thought, to insist that God—your I AM—dwells within and now. In that shift, mercy and restoration appear as inevitable experiences, not distant favors. Your heart, once divided, becomes a single temple where attention, feeling, and belief converge, and the prodigal sense of separation returns home to the one God within.