Inner Pilgrimage to the Temple

Neville's Inner Vision

Verse by verse, we see that the road to the temple is not a distant street but a return of consciousness. 'I was glad' is the joyful decision of the I AM to awaken to divine presence; the 'house of the LORD' is the inner temple within You, the state of awareness that remains whole and appreciative. 'Our feet shall stand within thy gates' becomes a mental posture: you stand in a secured inner boundary where thought, feeling, and imagination are yoked to gratitude. Jerusalem, built compact together, is the unity of your faculties harmonized in consciousness—mind, memory, will, and imagination are not scattered but joined as one city. The 'tribes of the LORD' are the diverse aspects of self—faith, hope, love, courage—ascending to the 'testimony of Israel,' the inner record of divine law and truth. To go up is to elevate your inner weather by thanksgiving, letting the name of the LORD be invoked as the life of your awareness. This is worship as inner alignment, not ritual action; it is remembrance of your unity with the I AM, the one Jerusalem that never departs from you.