Armor and Idols: Inner Worship

Neville's Inner Vision

All the events in this text are states and movements of consciousness. Saul's armor is the outward attire of a defiantly structured ego—ready for battle, dependent on praise, tethered to power. The house of Ashtaroth stands for idol worship not as stones and idols, but as a mental posture that places commerce, control, and status above intimate communion with God. To place Saul's armor there is to admit that the ego has claimed the throne of your inner kingdom. To fasten his body to the wall of Bethshan is to fix a story of consequence in the mind—public shame, visible ruin—until you believe it is real. But the I AM, your true self, is not harmed by such theater. When you assume a higher consciousness, that armor dissolves as you revise it into symbolic memory and return to the living presence of I AM. Feel the conviction that you are now governed by awareness, not by fear, and let true worship—alignment with the one I AM—reign in place of old forms.