Inner Idol in the Bed

Neville's Inner Vision

Read as Neville would: this is not a history lesson but a map of the mind. The image Michal places in the bed represents a substitute belief—a symbol chosen to misdirect the senses from the real Presence. The bed is the inner sanctuary where your awareness rests; the pillow of goats' hair and the cloth are garments of fear, habits of substitution that cover the truth of your being. When you imagine that the I AM is replaced by a talisman, the mind experiences alarm and the sense of danger. But the moment you revise and accept that God, the I AM, is always within, the substitute collapses into symbols seen for what they are: dream images. The true reality is that your true David—your waking awareness of God as I AM—is already here, unthreatened and complete. This passage invites you to shift from reliance on outward signs to inner recognition that presence precedes perception; true worship arises as you align with the one reality within.