Inner Temple of Prayer

Neville's Inner Vision

Your true temple is not made of stone but of consciousness, the I AM you awaken within. When the speaker says 'My house is a house of prayer,' you are being invited to own and inhabit a space where attention is tuned to reverent presence rather than restless habit. The 'den of thieves' appears wherever you have allowed thoughts of lack, judgment, or busyness to rule the inner gallery. In Neville's key, these thieves are not external villains; they are images and feelings that keep you from realizing that prayer is the natural state of awareness. To cleanse is to revise the interior scene until the sacred room returns to its rightful use: a quiet, listening, imaginal chamber where you “receive” rather than chase. As you assume the I AM presence and the feeling of already possessing what you seek, the imagined traders fade and the temple glows with a felt invitation to worship as life, not as ritual apart from you. The moment you claim the inner sanctuary, you discover that every thought and feeling is a doorway back to God.