Purified Inner Altar

Neville's Inner Vision

Within your heart, the altar is your consciousness, and the I AM is its flame. The command to offer no foreign incense means no motives borrowed from the world can be poured into your worship; if you seek approval, wealth, or status as the price of devotion, you are lighting strange incense on the altar of your I AM. The burnt sacrifice and the meat offering speak of acts done without inner conviction—rituals performed from habit rather than truth. True worship arises when your thoughts, feelings, and purposes are in harmony with the immutable I AM that you are. When you notice a mixed motive—fear, envy, or need—return to the feeling of your own I AM, revise the motive, and declare, 'I AM the temple; I offer only what is true to my nature.' The law here is guidance, not punishment: keep the inner altar free from contamination and do not dilute it with alien desires. In imagination you may dwell as if the I AM were lighting the incense of your life; feel the pure, single fire of worship already present in you.