Tophet Within the Rooftop Temple

Neville's Inner Vision

In the Neville view, the city and its judgment are not a geography but a state of consciousness. Jeremiah’s Tophet is the furnace of attachment when you worship appearances—success, praise, security—on the roofs of your mind, offering devotion to countless ‘gods’ outside your inner I AM. The statement, ‘This place shall be defiled,’ becomes a diagnostic: when you give power to external forms, you dilute the awareness that you are the only Presence. The punishment then arrives as a natural consequence of living in a divided sense of self, not as a thunderbolt from a distant deity. Therefore the inner work is to reverse the movement: withdraw incense from every idol and reassign worship to the I AM that dwells within. By changing internal states, the city—in consciousness—returns to sacred wholeness, and the rooftops become altars of steady awareness rather than flames of fear. The call is to covenant loyalty: align your heart with the one Presence you truly are, and the outer defilement dissolves in the light of awareness.