Inner Altar Purge Practice

Neville's Inner Vision

In this line you are not reading a history lesson but a state of consciousness being purged. The altars in Jerusalem symbolize inner dispositions that have passed for worship—habits, beliefs, and sensitivities that pretend to reach the divine by form. When they arise and remove these altars and the incense altars, you are reordering your inner temple: you cast away the rites that have no true life in consciousness and refuse to be defined by ritual. The brook Kidron is the cleansing stream of feeling—an inner release through which energy flows out of the old forms. By removing them, you declare with your I AM that worship is not of objects but of awareness. True worship, then, is a state where there is no rival altar; the self's attention rests on the presence within. This is not denial but renewal: you awaken to the one altar that matters—the God that you are aware of as I AM.