Inner Gatekeepers of Worship

Neville's Inner Vision

To the awake mind, the house of the LORD is the temple of your own consciousness, and the porters are your disciplined states of awareness. When you imagine that you stand at the gates, you remind yourself that nothing unclean—fear, anger, doubt, or worn-out stories about yourself—may pass into your sacred inner space. In this view, God is not a distant deity but the I AM within, the self-aware presence that refuses what is inconsistent with its truth. By deliberately assuming the role of the gatekeeper, you reorganize beliefs: you do not punish or condemn but simply refuse entry to every thought that would lower your consciousness from holiness. If you encounter an impression of impurity, you revise it by declaring that the temple's law is purity, and the Presence asserts its right to dwell there. The act of setting the porters at the gates demonstrates that true worship begins with inner order; the outer ritual points to the inner symmetry of the mind. Your true worship is the steady discipline of keeping your inner gates open only to the holy.