Inner Pillars of Worship

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the temple garden not as a building separate from you, but as the architecture of your own awareness. The two pillars stand for two steadfast states you cultivate in mind—attention fixed and reverence maintained. The pommels and chapiters on their tops are the crowns of consciousness you wear when you remember you are I AM, always present. The wreaths that cover the pommels symbolize the coverings of habit and ritual, the forms you keep around your awareness to guard its sacredness. The four hundred pomegranates on the wreaths symbolize the fullness of your inner offerings—many-faceted thoughts, feelings, and desires held in orderly abundance. When you dwell in this inner architecture, worship is not a display before God apart from you, but a mutual recognition: God is I AM awareness, and you are the figure, the instrument through which that awareness acts. The outer ornament teaches discipline; holiness is an inner state declared until it becomes natural. Your life becomes the temple where presence is felt as attentiveness, integrity, and inner purity, not separation from God but its living expression.