The Inner Temple Of Mercy

Neville's Inner Vision

To read this text with Neville Goddard is to enter a psychology of inner awareness. The temple you worship in outward form is but a shell; the greater temple is your I AM, the living awareness that uses no external ritual but faith in its own authority. When the line places one greater than the temple in this place, it invites you to cease seeking validation from empty forms and to acknowledge that you are the authority of your experience. Mercy becomes the felt attitude of your inner state rather than a ritual sacrifice. The phrase I will have mercy and not sacrifice becomes a working assumption: you revise guilt by choosing mercy in the now, you do not condemn the self or others, and you allow the inner light to speak. The Son of Man being Lord of the Sabbath proclaims that rest is a state of consciousness you enter by ceasing effort and recognizing your innate sovereignty. In such recognition, you awaken to the truth that you and mercy are one and the I AM that you are.