The Everlasting Inner Altar

Neville's Inner Vision

Leviticus speaks of an altar-fire that must never be extinguished; in Neville's tongue this is the inward flame of consciousness that you must tend with steady imagination. The 'fire' is your I AM, the awareness that you are now and always. The wood you lay each morning is the daily choices of attention you feed the mind with, and the offerings laid upon it are the forms your state of consciousness assumes. When you insist that the fire shall endure, you are not petitioning externals; you are declaring to the inner man that your world is the expression of your inner consent. The altar is your inner sanctuary, the place where God—your awareness—dwells as the immutable fact that you are already the content of your imagined state. To keep it alive is to refuse to concede to the old image; it is to feel the feeling of the wish fulfilled and allow the imagination to rewrite memory and expectation. The continuity of the flame is the continuous alignment of self with the truth of I AM.