Inner Temple Worship

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this verse, the outward temple routine mirrors the activity of your inner consciousness. Morning and evening offerings, the shewbread set in order, and the golden lamp symbolize fixed thoughts, orderly awareness, and the radiant illumination that you feed with attention. Saying 'we keep the charge of the LORD our God' is an affirmation of an inner covenant with the I AM—an I that is awake, attentive, and faithful to its own presence. The phrase 'but ye have forsaken him' points, in Neville's method, to the mistake of substituting outer acts for inner union. When you imagine yourself as the I AM, you realize that the temple becomes your own life: rituals without inner correspondence stay as forms, but when you align the heart—feeling, assumption, and revision—with the divine I AM—the light burns, the bread is rightly thought, and the whole temple is kept in right order. The practice is not about competition with others' rites, but about the inner discipline that keeps your consciousness awake to God within.