Guarding the Inner Sanctuary

Neville's Inner Vision

This verse invites you to regard the sanctuary as the inner state of awareness you inhabit. Keep the charge means hold steady to the conditions of your consciousness where you worship with imagination. The altar represents the fire of desire—your imaginative focus that consecrates every thought. When you guard these inner duties, you avert the wrath—the disturbance and fear that arise from stray beliefs. The true Israel is your present awareness; by maintaining the inner sanctuary's sacred function, you sustain a disposition free from punitive judgments, and mercy can flow through compassionate discernment. It requires separation from lower claims and a disciplined attention to what you accept as real. The sense of I AM at the center of you sets the tempo; by dwelling there, you align your thoughts, feelings, and imagery, and outward appearances follow the inner order.