Chosen Inner Temple

Neville's Inner Vision

See the 'house' not as bricks but as the state of your own consciousness. When God says, I have chosen and sanctified this house, He invites you to awaken to the truth that your inner temple is already consecrated by the I AM. The 'name' dwelling there is the awareness of being, the eternal you who knows itself as I AM. The 'eyes and heart' are your attention and feeling, fixed there perpetually, not by outward ritual but by inner consent. Thus, the temple is not a place in space but a condition you occupy in imagination: you imagine that your life is the sanctuary where divinity resides; you tune your attention to that holy presence; you feel the reality of the I AM as your immediate experience. In practice, you do not beg for God to come; you revise your assumption until it feels true: I am the I AM perceiving through this temple, and this temple is eternally chosen and sanctified.