The Priest's Inner Commandment

Neville's Inner Vision

To the aware reader, this is not a distant law but an invitation to your own I AM. The priests in Malachi symbolize the disciplined parts of you—the habits, thoughts, and deeds that guard the inner sanctuary. When the verse says, this commandment is for you, hear it as a call to responsibility: what commandment you honor within, you enact in life. Your inner priest asks, what standard am I willing to uphold today? As you imagine that commandment descending into feeling and thought, a shift occurs: through imagination you become that standard—obedience becomes alignment with your true nature, not a penalty. The commandment turns into a living texture of consciousness, a decision to separate your genuine aims from vanity or fear, and to consecrate your work to a single, holy motive. If you regard yourself as the priest and your day as the temple, the law becomes creative assurance: what you esteem as real in you will be made manifest. So assume the role, revise where you have tolerated compromise, and feel it real that your daily life is governed by an inner, holy standard.