The I Am Confronts Idolatry

Neville's Inner Vision

Elijah’s dialogue is not two men on a hill, but two states within my own consciousness. When the outer world names me as the cause of trouble, it is simply my awareness re-presenting a belief that I have broken the inner law. The real 'commandments of the LORD' are my inner alignments, my covenant with the I AM. The charge that I 'trouble Israel' dissolves as I realize the trouble was not out there, but in my sense of separation from God. The moment I hear the accusation, I can revise it by recognizing that I never left the commandments; I merely believed myself separated from the consciousness that keeps order, loyalty, and true worship. The Baalim are the idolatrous habits of appetite and fear that tempt me to rely on forms rather than the living I AM within. As I re-enter obedience inwardly and refuse to exalt the ego’s image, my outer world quiets, and the true kingdom is restored in me.