Inner Altar Doctrine: Malachi 1:10

Neville's Inner Vision

Who is there that would shut the doors for nought? This points to the inner act of closing off possibilities with doubt, the state you hide from the I AM. Neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought means the altar is the seat of feeling; a ritual performed without heartfelt conviction is a fire with no substance in consciousness, and the divine presence takes no pleasure in such offerings. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand: the offering is your consciousness; if you give it only as form, you present a dead sacrifice. The cure is to revise your state until the inner altar is alive. Assume the I AM is your true reality; see yourself as already united with the divine Presence, and feel the fire of faith, love, and gratitude awaken within. Then your external life will align with that truth. True worship, in Neville's sense, is the constant alignment of awareness with the one Life within; the rest is shadow until you choose to feel it real.