Incense Of The Inner Altar

Neville's Inner Vision

On the level of psychological scripture, this altar is your inner altar of awareness. The wood, gold, rings, and horns symbolize your concrete states of consciousness. The place before the veil and mercy seat marks the moment your attention turns toward the I AM that dwells in you. The daily burning of sweet incense—morning and evening—represents a steady, loving attention kept in the present, a discipline that keeps your inner temple open to revelation. The prohibition of strange incense and the annual atonement on the horns remind you that you cannot mix fleeting assumptions with the sacred state; you must revise and release old patterns until they serve the holy, ongoing presence within. This is not ritual for ritual's sake but the conscious act of tending your inner atmosphere, choosing the end you desire and living from it, repeatedly until the seen world conforms to your inward state. The horned altar, like the focal points of attention, must be honored; cleansing with 'blood' signals shedding old narratives to sustain communion with the divine I AM.