Inner Priests and True Worship

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the people ‘feared the LORD’ yet acted as if the divine could be kept by setting up the lowest among them as priests of the high places, and offering sacrifices in those temples of memory. In Neville's terms, the fear is an awareness of the I AM, but the high place is not a distant altar; it is a mental elevation where you accommodate fear, habit, or compromise by appointing a petty priest to administer it. The true worship, then, is not in the external houses but in the inner state you cultivate. The "low priests" symbolize stale mental patterns—doubt dressed as piety—that pretend to serve God while keeping you bound to an old altar. The invitation is to revise: align the inner priest with the one and only Priest of the Most High, activating your awareness in the heart. Dwell in the feeling that the I AM is present, and imagine the temple transformed into a sanctuary of unsullied worship. When you assume that reality, the outer forms shift to reflect your inner alignment.