Inner Doors of the Temple

Neville's Inner Vision

To reinterpret this passage through the I AM lens, see the entering of the oracle not as a distant ceremony but as the moment your consciousness passes through a door you have already imagined into being. The olive wood of the doors represents sturdy, humble awareness—not flashy, but enduring. The gold overlay is the felt presence of the I AM, the consciousness you lay upon circumstance until it gleams with reality. The cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers are inner images you choose to place at the threshold: guardians that affirm beauty, fruitfulness, and protection as you approach truth. The fact that the two doors and their leaves are folding indicates that entrance to the Presence is a matter of aligning complementary states of mind—one leaf opening as the other closes, a shift of attention rather than an outer action. In the temple’s door-posts and door itself, notice that the boundary is a product of belief; once you revise belief, the sacred space becomes available. Therefore, the Presence is not outside you; it is the I AM you awaken to when you honor your inner symbols and covenant loyalty to the truth you hold in imagination.