Inner Temple and Higher Gate
2 Kings 15:35 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read 2 Kings 15 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verse notes the high places remained while the gate was built, signaling that outward reforms do not guarantee inner devotion. True worship, in this view, arises from the inner state, not external structures.
Neville's Inner Vision
Consider the high places as inner altars set up in the mind, altars where you still worship lack, fear, or separation. The king building the higher gate within the house of the LORD symbolizes outward improvement—an appealing façade that may invite belief in progress. Yet the inner work remains unfinished until the high places are dissolved in consciousness. In this Neville reading, your life is a theater of states of consciousness; God is the I AM that perceives them. Do not condemn external temple-building, but recognize that a higher door opens only when you revise the root assumption behind your worship. Allow the feeling to shift: you are one with the Source, the I AM. Begin to imagine the I AM seated in the inner sanctuary, and let the old altars lose power as you insist, with conviction, I am consciousness; I am the temple; the high places are finished. When your inner witness aligns with this truth, your world will reflect it, and the gate becomes a gateway of consciousness rather than a sign of separation.
Practice This Now
Imaginative Act: Close your eyes and assume the state of I AM within. Repeat, I am consciousness; I am the temple, until that feeling feels real.
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