Temple Trials Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Your temple is never a building but the state of your consciousness in which you worship the I AM. When the text says the Jews caught me in the temple and sought to kill me, hear it as the story of inner resistance, not a physical mob. The 'these causes' are the stubborn habits of the old self clinging to its familiar ideas. In Neville's psychology, such outer peril reveals the inner movement: fear, attachment, the belief I am vulnerable. Yet the I AM cannot be harmed, and the temple of your awareness cannot be desecrated by the props of yesterday's identity. Therefore, revise this scene inwardly: declare that you are already safe, that your inner temple is guarded by the life that you are, and that the attempt to kill the new you dissolves as you acknowledge the power of consciousness. Allow the feeling of invulnerability to settle in; you are not the character in the story but the one who tells it into form.