Inner Lineage and Covenant

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice how Nehemiah records a lineage by marriage, not by force or conquest. In the inner temple of your consciousness, the priests are your attentive faculties, service and devotion. The children of Habaiah, Koz, Barzillai signify states of awareness that have formed through choice and affinity. The man who took one of Barzillai’s daughters to wife is your willingness to inhabit a trait—loyalty, gentleness, steadfast covenant—by uniting with a quality outside your former circle. And being called after their name means your sense of self is renamed by that union; your inner I AM adopts the name of the trait you have chosen to embody. This is how identity is not fixed, but revised by what you join in heart and imagination. If you desire unity in your inner house, ally with the Barzillai quality you admire; let your awareness take on that name. The old self dissolves into a richer priesthood, the temple of the I AM, where names flow from the covenant you maintain with your chosen virtue. Faithfulness to this inner alliance creates the outer form of your life in alignment with that union.