Inner Temple Reckoning

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville’s reckoning, the city is the mind and the ritual procession is a state of consciousness dressed in external forms. The beards shaved, the clothes torn, and the offerings symbolize worship that has become habit, not living awareness. Ishmael embodies the stubborn ego or ‘false self’ that would destroy other impulses rather than harmonize them under the I AM within. The pit represents the recesses of the unconscious where rejected portions of self are held. The scene exposes that real division and judgment arise not from a hostile world but from an inner mechanism that prefers ritual purity over integrated consciousness. True worship appears when you stop mistaking ritual for life and begin to live from the I AM—feeling, not performing, all aspects of yourself as sacred. When you recognize that every impulse, even the conflicting ones, belongs to the one awareness, you can release the need to purge or punishment and invite wholeness into your inner temple.