Inner Sanctuaries and Boundaries

Neville's Inner Vision

Observe how the text keeps the imperfect priest within reach of the bread of God, while posting him at the threshold of the holy of holies. The blemish represents a belief in limitation within consciousness, not a moral condemnation. Yet the life-giving bread is offered to him now, symbolizing that nourishment comes from alignment with the I AM, here and now. The veil and the altar signify inner doors you may feel you cannot pass until you resolve that sense of deficiency. But the LORD’s statement that he sanctifies them declares that your very state is already holy in the sight of awareness. Therefore your practice is not to become flawless to enter the sacred; it is to revise your sense of self by assuming the truth that you are the I AM, and that sanctification is a present act of consciousness. When you imagine yourself as the sanctified self, you may partake of divine nourishment and gradually remove the apparent distance to the inner sanctuary.