Inner Altar, True Worship

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the language of Hosea lies a call to the inner temple. Gilead's iniquity is not some external offense but a state of consciousness that mistakes form for God. The line 'they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal' points to the mind's habit of performing, as though worship were a transaction sealed by ritual. The altars 'as heaps in the furrows' reveal thoughts scattered in the field—ideas left to lie in the dirt of memory, not tended to by awareness. When you rest in such habits, you worship the self-image you have manufactured, not the I AM that animates all. The 'vanity' of it is blindness to being, to the living presence that is always now. To rewrite this you must revise the inner conviction: you are the I AM, and every act of life is an altar you tend with imagination. Let the mind shift from external acts to internal recognition, for when you acknowledge the divine within, the outer forms either harmonize or dissolve as no longer necessary. This is the path from judgment to true worship.