Solomon's Idols of the Heart

Neville's Inner Vision

In the inner drama, this verse reveals the mind’s habit of setting up foreign powers as rulers over our life. Solomon, the wise king, represents the conscious mind seeking security through ritual and attachments, while the hills and altars symbolize inner dispositions where images of power are held. Chemosh and Molech are not distant deities but personifications of appetites and fears we yield to when we forget the I AM—the living awareness that is our true self. When you fix the hill before Jerusalem in your imagination, you are re-enacting the moment you assume responsibility to something outside you for your happiness. The remedy is not more ritual but a revised sense of identity: to recognize that the gods you serve are only pictures in mind, and you as the I AM can revoke them by imagining their power dissolved and replaced with divine indwelling. The moment you affirm, I am the I AM, you dissolve the idols into your present consciousness and invite true holiness.