Inner Altar of Sin

Neville's Inner Vision

To the trained ear of the I AM, the altar is not a stone but a state of consciousness. Ephraim’s altars to sin symbolize repeated inner movements—habits of desire, fear, and self-justification—that give birth to outward acts. When the mind treats sin as power and worship as a collection of external rites, the inner weather remains unchanged, and the very altars you build become magnets drawing you back into sin. The verse does not condemn a people, it reveals a law: your inner worship determines your outer world. The moment you cease to identify with the old self and imagine that you are the I AM, you dissolve the power of those altars. In that instant, the altar to sin loses its energy and becomes merely memory. You are not commanded to stop sin by brute effort but to replace the belief that you are separate from God with the awareness that you are consciousness itself—the living altar of divine life.