Inner Altars on Green Hills

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville Goddard's view the altars and groves are not external stones but inner dispositions, images that stand for states of consciousness. The memory of those altars signals the mind clinging to habitual forms of worship. When you read this, watch where your attention goes: toward outward places, lineage, and ritual, or toward the I AM that witnesses all. The true worship is not found in stones or trees, but in the living awareness that you are the energy behind every scene. If your mind is drawn to external altars, revise by turning your attention inward to the I AM, listening to the still voice within, and allowing that inner altar to become the source of reverence. Imagine that you are both the author and the observer of all scenes, and you freely redraw the landscape from fixed hills into a vivid present created by imagination. In this revision, the hill becomes a sanctuary within and the grove a shelter of inner peace. Your task is to insist that the altar is within you and that worship arises from consciousness itself.