Inner Priesthood Awakening

Neville's Inner Vision

Judges 17:12 presents a man who consecrates a Levite and sets him in his house as priest. In the Neville Goddard sense, this is a state of consciousness choosing a minister for its private temple. The Levite represents a functioning aspect of awareness—an inner minister who mediates our sense of the divine. When Micah 'consecrates' him, I am acknowledging that a particular image of worship has arisen within me, and I appoint it as my house priest. The real Presence is not outside in a distant ritual, but within the I AM that animates every thought and feeling. The 'house of Micah' is your current mental environment—your prevailing beliefs, habits, and emotional climate. Holy protocol is not a legal arrangement but a turn of attention: I remember that I am the I AM, and the inner priest serves at my altar, not to validate a private idol but to reveal the Presence. The danger is substituting a form for the living Presence. When I realize that the priest is a projection of my consciousness, worship becomes an inward alignment rather than an external ceremony.