Blue Coverings of the Inner Sanctuary

Neville's Inner Vision

In the inner temple of your being, the outer ritual is but a luminous reflection of your present state. The golden altar stands for the center of your consciousness where requests and worship arise. The blue cloth covers the altar as a symbol of the higher imagination you must clothe your mind with before any act of service. The coverings of badgers' skins remind you to wrap your holy work in humility, protecting it from the glare of ego and the noise of doubt. When they lift the instruments of ministry and lay them in a blue cloth, then bind them to a bar, they show how your faculties—imagination, faith, memory, and love—are to be carried and supported, not flaunted. In Neville's terms, the outer ceremony reveals an inner condition: you must imagine and keep sacred tools in a protected, reverent state, so that when you move in life, your acts of service proceed from a sanctified awareness. The presence of God is not a distant event, but the I AM attending your every movement, as you willingly assume the end and ride it into form.