Counting the Inner Sanctuary

Neville's Inner Vision

You are the Kohathite temple in form and function, and the four families—Amramites, Izeharites, Hebronites, Uzzielites—are the four steady faculties of your consciousness: devotion, order, service, and fidelity. The verse names them as a divine census, teaching that your inner sanctuary is kept not by time but by state of mind. The eight thousand six hundred males in the count symbolize a disciplined, tangible charge—a constant, practical attention—guarding what you cherish most in consciousness. When you regard the I AM as your true self, the sanctuary becomes your immediate awareness, and keeping the charge of the sanctuary becomes your daily choice to maintain focus on reality as you intend it to be. The movement from a month old to adulthood in the count mirrors your inner beginnings and ongoing establishment of a practiced state of consciousness. If you revise any sense of lack into fullness and feel the presence of God as now, you will find the inner temple harmonized, present, and obedient to your imagined reality.