Inner Covenant of Malachi

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the text as instruction to your own consciousness. When the text speaks of hearing and laying it to heart, it speaks to your mind and inner state rather than external events. God is the I AM within; glory unto my name means you acknowledge that awareness and trust it as the source of every blessing. If you refuse to attend to that inner call, you pour attention into doubt and ritual, and your blessings are cursed by your own mind already cursed by the belief that you are separate from the source. The line about corrupting your seed is the claim that what you plant as belief becomes the future you experience; the dung upon your faces and the separation are the waste of empty form, a life lived in the shadow of misunderstanding. The commandment is given that your covenant might be with Levi — the inner high priest, your higher function of awareness — so that your life is aligned with this inner authority. Your job is to return to witness the I am and let that awareness rule. In that reinvestment, your seed is blessed and is allowed to fulfill its purpose.