Inner Pride, Outer Fall

Neville's Inner Vision

26:16 reveals an inner drama. When a man feels strong, that sense of strength is the pride that lifts the heart toward its own destruction. The temple is the sanctuary of awareness within you; burning incense on its altar by ego is a private ceremony that pretends to draw God through force. In Neville’s law of consciousness, such overreach is not punished by a distant deity but by the collapse of alignment between your outer acts and your inner state. Pride isolates you from the I AM and imprints an inner leprosy—the wrenching sense that the very sanctuary you serve is being violated. The healing is not withdrawal but a deliberate conversion: assume the state of being the I AM, and treat the temple with reverent, quiet obedience. Let your decisions arise from inner stillness, as though the priest within you stands without agenda, knowing the altar is sacred and guarded by truth. In that shift, the ‘destruction’ becomes a redirection back to harmony, and you preserve the holy order within.