Inner Temple Over Gold

Neville's Inner Vision

Where the gospel asks which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold, you are being asked to inspect your own state of consciousness. The 'respected' symbols—gold, altar, temple—point to objects you have mistakenly trusted as real apart from your mind. Yet your I AM, your awareness, is the sanctuary that sanctifies form itself. When you recognize that you are the one who gives significance to every thing, you stop worshiping the gift and begin worshiping the giver—which is your own interior life. The scribes and Pharisees are not far away; they live in you as a habit of valuing appearances over truth. You are free to align with the inner temple by withholding judgment and choosing a higher assumption: I am the sanctuary, and all forms reflect my inward state. When I imagine, I engage the power that creates; when I feel from that place, the world rearranges to fit the new sense of self. Truth is not in gold or altar but in the awareness that makes both real.