Inner Temple Rebuilt

Neville's Inner Vision

Verse 33:3-5 whispers to the inner life: the mind re-creates its altars when it forgets its true worship. Manasseh represents the part of you that will cling to old programs—idols of security, fame, or doctrine—and it builds anew within the sanctuary you call your own. The 'house of the LORD' becomes a theater for internal images, not a fortress of truth; the host of heaven are the outward pictures your senses chase. When you identify with these appearances, you are serving them, and your awareness obeys their ledgers of fear and desire. The two courts of the temple symbolize the two levels of mind—the conscious and the subconscious—where these images find refuge and reproduction. Yet the text also marks a truth: the Name of God is set to endure in Jerusalem, your innermost awareness. The remedy is not to condemn but to revise. In the I AM, you are already free; you simply must turn your attention away from the idol and back to the living Presence within.