The Inner Place of Worship

Neville's Inner Vision

Your true 'place' is not a stone ring in the valley but a state of consciousness where the I AM dwells. In Deuteronomy 12:5 the Lord your God shall choose a place for his name, and there you shall seek. Neville would say: seek the inner habitation where God’s name is inscribed in your own being. To seek is to turn attention inward and to assume the reality of the Presence as already existing in you. The 'chosen place' is the moment in which you accept the Presence as your present state; the temple is your own quiet awareness, your I AM. When you imagine you are there, feeling the Sovereign Presence, you align your inner world with divine reality. The outward geographies serve as a symbol for the psychological center. As you dwell in that inner sanctuary, you revise any sense of lack or distance by stating, 'I AM here, I AM in this moment, I AM with God.' The true worship is loyalty to this one state, the recognition that God is the I AM within you and that your imagination is the instrument by which you enter the habitation.