Incense At The Inner Altar
Revelation 8:3 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
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Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
An angel stands at the inner altar with a golden censer, carrying incense to mingle with the prayers of all saints before the throne. The scene invites us to understand prayer as an inner act aligned with our highest state of consciousness.
Neville's Inner Vision
In this vision, the altar is the center of your own awareness, and the angel with the censer is your faculty of imagination lifting your prayers into the flame of your independent I AM. The golden censer symbolizes a purified channel through which your thoughts and feelings ascend as incense. The prayers of all saints are not external petitions but the unified, collective desire of your own higher self—every true longing you hold in faith and feeling. When the incense rises to the throne, it merges with consciousness itself, and the throne stands as your permanent state of awareness. Wakefulness, not supplication, is the act; you are the one who prays in the sense of already possessing what you seek. Persist in the cadence of imagining your life as already fulfilled, and let the scent of it permeate your inner room until it becomes your dominant vibration.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes, breathe in the incense of your desire, and affirm as if it is already true: 'I am now experiencing [desired state]'; hold that feeling until it settles as your ordinary mood. Then carry this renewed sense back into daily life.
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