Altar Vision and Inner Judgment

Neville's Inner Vision

See the scene as a symbol of your own consciousness. The LORD standing on the altar is the I AM presence within you, the one who governs your inner temple. The command to smite the lintel and shake the posts represents a sudden reordering of your beliefs—an inner upheaval that shakes the doorposts of your old self. To cut them in the head, all of them, is to sever the roots of every thought that keeps you identified with lack, limitation, or fear. Slaying the last of them with the sword means you release the last vestige of separation between you and your desire, between you and your God-imagining. Those who flee or escape will not find deliverance, for there is no higher escape from the state you currently inhabit. The exiled and returned theme points to a movement of consciousness from bondage to freedom, not a historical event. Practice: assume you are already the state you seek, feel it with the body, revisit the altar of your mind and declare, I am that which I seek, and let the inner shaking consummate the return to wholeness.