Inner Worship Unveiled

Neville's Inner Vision

Observe that Hosea points not to religion as such, but to the inner state that sponsors it. Wine offerings and sacrifices are not inherently wrong; they become polluted when the worshipper believes themselves separate from the Presence. The bread of mourners speaks of an inner life eaten in sorrow, a consciousness that cannot feed the soul. In Neville’s terms, the 'house of the LORD' is the house of awareness within you. If your state of consciousness is defiled by guilt, fear, or the belief that you must appease power, your outward acts will fail to please the I AM because they echo that same defilement. The cure is not to reject ritual but to revise the assumption behind it: you are already the Presence, and you offer not to gain favor but to awaken your own consciousness. Assume, feel-it-real, that the boundary between worship and the Presence dissolves. Then the polluted bread is replaced by a sacred substance—the bread of life—readily eaten in the temple of your heart. The inner kingdom stands, and the outer offerings align with it.