Horns as Inner Sanctuary

Neville's Inner Vision

Adonijah’s fear is not a distant kingly plot, but a state of consciousness awakened within. The altar with horns is the inner sanctuary you and I know when we close the eyes of the mind and affirm I AM. When he rose in fear and clung to the horns, he acted from a belief that mercy and protection come from a place outside himself. In Neville’s terms, that is your present moment awareness revising the scene by imagining the altar as your own I AM, a throne of mercy accessible now. The horned altar represents a focal point of consciousness where hostile appearances are made subject to inner decree. To reinterpret is to realize the fear is a signal that you’ve shifted into a particular state, and you can alter it by assuming a different one: that you are already within the presence of the divine. As you assume, the fear dissolves and the feeling of safety grows, because you are not petitioning a distant king; you are entering the sanctuary of your own awareness, where mercy resides and true worship is simply the alignment with I AM.