Near the Inner Tabernacle

Neville's Inner Vision

To me and to you, the tabernacle is the sanctuary within your own awareness, the place where God—your I AM presence—dwells. 'Near' means your thoughts and feelings move in harmony with that I AM so completely that you feel the divine nearness as your own life. 'Die' is not a threat to the body but the dissolution of a false self—the egoic thought that you are separate from the Presence. The command to avoid the sacred boundary is a teaching in discernment: approach only with purity of motive, attention, and imagination. When you refuse to entertain contradiction, and you assume you are already in the holy presence, the sense of distance drops away and your world rearranges to reflect your inner state. Holiness becomes practical: examine your inner speech, revise fear into faith, and dwell in the feeling of being already embraced by God. The death spoken of is the old story of separation dying, so life—true, intimate, continuous proximity to the divine—can rise in its place.