Inner Temple Tables and Basins
2 Chronicles 4:8 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read 2 Chronicles 4 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verse describes the temple's orderly furnishings—ten tables, five on each side, and a hundred golden basins—signifying prepared worship spaces.
Neville's Inner Vision
Within the verse, the temple is not a building but your own living consciousness, and the furnishings are the movements of awareness. The ten tables are stations of attention placed in your inner sanctuary—five on the right, five on the left—each representing a practiced thought or devotion you attend to in daily life. The hundred basins of gold are not mere vessels, but the cleansing radiance of your awareness that pours over every belief, washing away doubt and pretence, revealing the gold of your true nature. When you imagine these furnishings, you are not copying an ancient layout; you are reordering your inner life so that worship becomes constant, not ceremonial. Holiness arises not from ritual alone but from disciplined alignment: you invite the divine Presence to inhabit the space you affirm with intention. This is obedience to your own I AM, not to an external rite. As you cultivate the feeling of constancy—tables filled with reverent thought, basins kept shining by faith—the sense of God’s Presence expands beyond ritual and becomes your daily experience.
Practice This Now
Assume the temple now and place ten mental tables, five to the right and five to the left; envision gold basins pouring cleansing light over every belief. Then rest in the felt Presence as your everyday experience.
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