Incense as Inner Cloud of Worship

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Neville's reading, the external rite becomes an inner drama of the I AM. The censer and fire are not objects but a dynamic imagination stirring the heart; the sweet incense is the thought-creation that we beat into a finer resolve and sentiment. The veil stands as your current state of consciousness, a boundary you may cross only by consenting to your true nature. When the incense is placed on the fire before the 'LORD' of your awareness, the cloud of your imagining rises and covers the mercy seat—the locus of your deepest I AM within—so that life does not break you but confirms you in presence. The warning that you die not becomes a reminder that without inner purification, one may fall back into lesser consciousness. But as you persist in the feeling of being seated with God, you awaken to a moment when your attention becomes the cloud enveloping the holy inner seat. The act is not ritual for its own sake; it is the steady choosing of a state where you are always attended by the divine presence.