Inner Temple Crumbles

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville's ear, these words invite you to shift from watching stones to watching your own mind. The stone-by-stone destruction is not history but a metaphor of your own inner architecture. When Jesus asks, 'Seest thou these great buildings?' you are being shown how your attention has fastened upon the structures of belief and form—habit, tradition, identity, achievement. But these are only symbols of inner states. The day will come when not one stone remains upon another—the outer form dissolves—precisely as you turn away from the identification with that form and become conscious of the I AM within. The kingdom of God is not something out there awaiting conquest; it is your awareness, the constant presence that animates every stone, every thought, every feeling. The destruction of the temple marks the release of fear and the pain of separation, making room for a lucid sense of unity with God. Judgment becomes self-awareness; accountability becomes choosing love and possibility within consciousness. So the promise is not a distant event but a present shift: your inner vision creates the world you witness.