High Places of Inner Idols

Neville's Inner Vision

From Neville's perspective, the text reveals not geography but a map of consciousness. High places and groves are not places you visit, but patterns of the mind where imaginations raise up idols and cling to forms. When you identify with the I AM as a mere observer of images—altars, statues, and groves in the mind—you discover that false worship is a state of dependence on shifting appearances. The inner citizen of your soul longs to control, to prove, to possess, and it besieges every hill of thought and every lush 'green tree' of feeling. Yet the I AM remains unshaken, the one consciousness under which all appearances arise. The remedy is simple: stop feeding the images with fear or desire and revise them with the conviction that God is the one I AM here now. By imagining the desired state as already present and feeling it, you turn the inner grove into a sanctuary of awareness rather than an idol of craving. True worship, then, is the alignment of imagination with the eternal I AM within.