Temple Gold and True Worship

Neville's Inner Vision

Behold the woe pronounced not upon stone, but upon the state of consciousness that treats form as real. The temple and the altar are not external edicts; they are your inner arrangements, the imaginings that sanctify what you call sacred. When you swear by the temple, and prize the gold that seems to uphold it, you are confessing that your awareness is swayed by appearances. Yet the greater is not the gold nor the altar, but the consciousness that gives form to both. The 'gifts' upon the altar are but recurring thoughts you cling to as proof, and in clinging you call them guilty; you are the ruler of your inner world. See that the temple’s sanctification of gold occurs wherever you believe a symbol outshines the life within you. The truth remains: the I AM is the source; imagination is the instrument; your awakening is the shift in what you accept as real. Re-center, and let the inner temple be free to regard outer tokens as mere signs that pass away.