Inner Temple Renewal in Haggai

Neville's Inner Vision

Your plain reading calls the temple a ruin or memory; in Neville's terms, the glory belongs to a belief you once inhabited, not to the present view. The current sight—'as nothing'—is a mental state you have accepted. The command 'be strong and work' is a directive to assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled now. I am with you is the I AM within, the presence you can rely on rather than external proof. The covenant spoken at the exodus is the inner promise that Spirit remains among you: fear not. So revise the scene in your mind: imagine the temple rebuilt in radiant form, feel its sanctity, hear the decree that you are not alone. Persist in the assumption and let the end dwell in you until it becomes fact in your experience. The outer condition will shift as your inner conviction grows, for the kingdom is within and creation follows consciousness.