Inner Temple Stewardship

Neville's Inner Vision

See in this account a map of your inward administration. The chambers for the treasures, offerings, firstfruits, and tithes are not external storehouses but inner states you appoint to guard and fuel your temple. The priests and Levites waiting there are your nobler faculties—your conscience, discretion, and receptivity—held in readiness by the I AM. Judah rejoicing for the priests and Levites is the inward joy that arises when gratitude for these workers flows through you. The singers and porters who guard the ward of God and the ward of purification reflect the discipline of your thoughts: they keep out what corrupts and maintain purity according to the ancient pattern you know within. In the days of David and Asaph there were chief singers, songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God—so you, too, can summon habitual moods of praise that bless the divine within. All Israel giving daily portions mirrors your daily practice of supplying attention and reverence to the inner temple; you sanctify sacred things to the Levites, who sanctify them to the priestly faculty within you. The temple's order mirrors the order of your consciousness: inner arrangement births outer alignment.