Gilded Temple of Inner Awareness
2 Chronicles 3:5 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
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Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The great house, the temple, was paneled with fir and overlaid with fine gold, with palm trees and chains as adornments. This emphasis on outward beauty points to an inner arrangement of devotion and covenant presence.
Neville's Inner Vision
Consider the greater house as your state of consciousness, the inner sanctuary where God dwells as I AM. The fir wood signifies the steadfast discipline of attention, upon which you lay the gold of awareness. When you overlay your mental structure with gold, you are not polishing stone; you are infusing it with the light of imagination, until every palm tree and chain within represents triumph and covenant loyalty—symbols of life and binding to the divine covenant within you. The external ornament is a sign of an inward revelation: beauty on the surface testifies to a realization that has already taken place in your inner temple. To worship truly is to align your inner image with your I AM, to permit the golden self to preside over thoughts, feelings, and purposes. Your task is not to seek God in distant places, but to awaken and remain conscious of this gilded temple as your own reality.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and assume the inner temple is gilded with awareness; feel the luminosity. Repeat I AM and let the divine presence fill you now.
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