Inner Covenant Altar Practice

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the I AM lens, this verse is a teaching about the psychology of worship. The altar you guard is the state of consciousness in which you acknowledge the One Presence; the 'other altar' is any impulse to satisfy life apart from that inner reality. When you hear 'God forbid we rebel,' you are invited to inspect your allegiance of thought. To rebel is to turn attention away from the I AM and to seek God in external rites. The real altar stands in your awareness, the tabernacle of God within you, where all life is animated. When you align with that inner covenant, external sacrifices fall away as symbols rather than necessities. Obedience becomes inner alignment rather than ritual duty: you live as the consciousness through which God reveals itself. Your world reshapes to reflect this inward truth because you are inaugurating a single altar: the awareness that you are the I AM.