The Inner Altar of Choice

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Neville's cast, the great altar is inner attention; Ahaz is a state of consciousness that seeks to fix reality by ritual rather than by inner alignment. The priest Urijah stands for your inner faculties, the 'I AM' ready to hear and translate; the king's commands reveal a tendency to outsource meaning to external forms. When you 'enquire by' the bronze altar, you are inviting your inner question: What must I offer to be this, to enter the state I desire? The blood of sacrifice becomes the lifeblood of belief—what you cling to in order to prove your separateness or worthiness—sprinkled as a symbolic cleansing. But Neville would insist that real change comes not from the altar or the offerings themselves, but from the consent of your imagination: the assumption that the desired state already exists within you. So the outer ritual can point us to the interior act of selection: choosing what you will assume about yourself, and felt as real. The 'great altar' thus becomes the stage where you revise your sense of self until it matches the reality you intend to worship.