Cleansing the Inner Temple

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Neville Goddard's framework, the temple is your interior life, not a stone building. The scourge of small cords represents the decisive act of turning attention away from thoughts that cheapen sacred space. The sheep and the oxen are the habits and identifications you carry as if the self were apart from God; the money changers are the judgments by which you value experience. When the money is poured out and the tables overturned, the inner economy shifts from dependence on outward measures to the steady, unwavering currency of 'I AM' awareness. The doves symbolize innocence and receptivity that must not be bartered for status or possession. The disciples' memory of the zeal line is your reminder that true worship requires a fierce devotion to the sanctity of Spirit within. This is not a story of vengeance but of inner rearrangement: imagination acting as a fire that purges thought-forms, leaving your consciousness free to inhabit the Father's house as One. When you attend to this, your life begins to reflect the pure, sacred order of your own awakened self.