Inner Worship at Shiloh

Neville's Inner Vision

In this verse you are the man who yearly ascends to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of hosts at Shiloh, yet the deeper message is not geography but the rhythm of your inner life. The city is your present state of consciousness; the annual journey is the recurring turning of attention to the sovereign I AM within. Shiloh is the sanctuary you carry in awareness—the place where true worship occurs when attention is fixed on the LORD of hosts, the Lord within. The two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are not places but currents of ego-minded doing: the old rites, the mental noises, the habit of performing religion without inner alignment. Their presence reminds you that worship must be pure, free from the profane business of ego, yet the verse keeps the door open: the worshiper comes, and the Lord is there in consciousness. Thus, true obedience and faithfulness is not measured by ritual but by the alignment of your inner state with that Presence. When you "go up," you go inward to acknowledge I AM as your total reality, and your life becomes a continuous sacrifice of belief to Presence.