Incense of Inner Prayer

Neville's Inner Vision

What you behold in this scene is not distant ritual, but your own state of consciousness under altar lights. The Lamb is not an external object but the I AM within you, the aware center that accepts every desire as you. The four beasts and twenty-four elders are the summoned faculties of mind—imagination, steadfast feeling, faith, gratitude—kneeling to acknowledge that your prayers are already yours, caught in golden vessels of odour. The harps remind you that harmonious feeling is music played by your inner self when you choose to inhabit the state you seek. The prayers are incense, not petitions cast outward, but shifts of consciousness that perfume your inner air. When you take the book—your chosen intention—your inner circles fall into place, and the divine order proceeds from awareness, not effort. By resting in the assumption that your desire is fulfilled, you allow the scent of answered prayer to rise within the temple of your mind, until what you seek is seen as your own nature.