Solomon's Inner Temples

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice that the text does not locate idolatry in distant lands, but in the heart's assignments. Solomon's acts reveal a state of consciousness where the mind has erected high places for names and images—Chemosh, Molech, and the gods of many wives—outside the unity of the I AM. In Neville's reading, these 'foreign gods' are inner dispositions and fixed opinions that demand tribute from the waking life. When you identify with fear, appetite, or social approval as if they were lords before the city of Jerusalem (your central awareness), you are worshiping idols. Idols are not stone; they are persistent thoughts you treat as real power, and they determine your choices, moods, and outcomes. The remedy is not external reform but a revision of your inner governor: replace the imagined altars with the realization that you, and you alone, are the I AM here and now. Return attention to the living consciousness that animates every scene, and let the 'hill' be reclaimed as a space of true worship—one that serves your unified, present awareness.