Inner Offering on the Altar

Neville's Inner Vision

Solomon's act of sacrifice on the altar before the porch is not a history lesson but the still inner drama of consciousness. The altar you see is not a stone block but the threshold of awareness you carry in every moment. The LORD is the I AM within you; the offering is your willingness to let go of fear, appetite, and limitation into the flame of attention. When you imagine presenting a burnt offering—your desire, your complaint, your plan—you are not feeding a deity outside yourself; you are consecrating your thoughts to the consciousness that already holds and animates them. The porch marks the edge of ordinary perception; stepping onto it is a decision of faith that your inner structure matches the divine idea. In this sense, life in the temple is created from within, by the discipline of imagination and the feeling that you are already accepted by God.