Inner Worship Beyond Hypocrisy

Neville's Inner Vision

These verses invite you to see the outer forms as symbols of inner states. The people described are not distant idolaters; they are your own mind clinging to habit and separation while assuming holiness from without. Sacrifices in gardens and incense on brick altars mirror rituals you perform to prove you are better, while the living I AM sits untouched in the background of your awareness. Leaving graves and monuments behind represents a mind trapped in past beliefs, feeding on what seems forbidden, while declaring a higher order of holiness. The sting of the "smoke" and the "fire" is the brain's reaction when it believes it can distance itself from God through ritual rather than through alignment of consciousness. Neville's method shows that the true worship is the inner recognition of I AM as your constant awareness, the perception that you and God are one in the act of knowing. When you shift your inner state to include all, the conflict dissolves; you no longer fear judgment but witness holiness as living cognition. Your imagination becomes the altar on which you rest in unity.