Cedar Temple Within You

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider that the temple is not a building in a distant land but the state of your own consciousness. The forty cubits speak of the stretch of your awareness, the length of an unbroken assumption you inhabit. The cedar inside, carved with knops and open flowers, is the living life you have formed in imagination—pictures, feelings, and meanings that are deliberately ornamented with vitality. The absence of stone implies that no hard outer circumstance controls you when you dwell in this inner sanctuary; the outer world is but the reflection of your inner order. The phrase 'the house before it' points to worship as a present, inner act, not a ritual performed apart from who you are. Your true loyalty lies with the Covenant of your own consciousness—the I AM awareness that grants form to experience. When you regard your inner temple as already real, you are performing a practical act of creation: you revise your sense of self and feel the truth of the state until it manifests.