Guarding Your Inner Tabernacle

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville's ear, this passage whispers that the true census is not of bodies but of states of consciousness. The Levites are not counted among the multitude; they stand as the concentrated center of awareness given to the Temple of the heart. The tabernacle stands for your inner sanctuary and its Presence. The vessels are your faculties—memory, faith, imagination—carried by the guard who encamps round the sanctuary. When you accept this inner appointment, you stop scattering energy among trivial affairs and instead fix your attention on the sacred space within. The act of appointing Levites is the decision to let the I AM, your higher self, oversee the service, to minister to the Presence, and to encamp around the tabernacle so nothing profane intrudes. Holiness becomes not a ritual to perform but a mode of inner awareness in which your self serves the Presence, not the ego's demands. True worship then is the disciplined circulation of thoughts and feelings in reverent support of the inner temple, a daily feel-it-real of the Presence.