Inner Mountain Worship
Isaiah 57:7 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Isaiah 57 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Isaiah 57:7 depicts a bed on a high mountain offered as sacrifice, signaling outward ritual on a lofty altar. It contrasts external sanctuaries with true inner worship.
Neville's Inner Vision
On the surface the verse presents a bed on a high mountain, a ritual lifted to an external altar. Yet in Neville’s lens, mountains, beds, and sacrifices are inner states. The high mountain is a fixed belief about how life works; the bed is where attention rests in a story of separation. Going there to sacrifice is seeking a blessing by outer rite rather than inner realization. True worship is not ceremony but the recognition of the I AM within: you are the altar, the temple, and the offering all at once. When you claim consciousness as the source of every good, the need for distant altars dissolves. The moment you assume the inner state of already having what you seek, you stop seeking and stand in the present as the blessed, complete self. The outward world then harmonizes with that inner truth, and grace becomes your daily experience.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Sit in quiet, close your eyes, and declare: 'I am the I AM; this inner mountain is my mind; there is no outside sanctuary I must enter.' Then visualize stepping from the mountain into your room, aware that you already possess what you seek.
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