Building the Inner Temple

Neville's Inner Vision

In the Neville Goddard manner, the temple is not a stone building but your state of consciousness. The name of the LORD you build for is the I AM that you are aware of— the living center that cannot be contained by temples or time. The incense, the continual bread, the morning and evening offerings symbolize the steady thoughts and feelings you offer before the I AM, a ritual of attention that sanctifies your day. When you declare that this house is great because the God within is supreme, you are recognizing that your awareness is the throne of all power, not the walls around you. The clause that heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain Him reminds you that the divine is already present everywhere; your task is to align with Him by surrendering the old sense of separation and the fear-based stories you tell yourself. Your role is simply to be the faithful founder of a living temple—assume the state, revise any lack into abundance, and feel the I AM filling your thoughts and actions.