Inner Fire and Idolatry

Neville's Inner Vision

Behold the inner king in you, who, when fed by the abominations of the heathen, sweeps your inner truth into the furnace to prove loyalty to external power. The 'son' stands for your divine impulse, the seed of awakening; the 'fire' represents the heat of belief and testing. When you listen to the world—the voices of limitation, fear, and opinion—you can pass this inner son through the fire, sacrificing innocence to the altar of performance. Yet the Lord, your inner I AM, casts out those external idols as you awaken to your true nature. You are not bound to sacrifice your inner truth for acceptance; you can reverse the motion by assuming the truth of your own sovereignty, letting the inner God proclaim, 'I am the I AM.' In waking to this, you learn to revise in imagination: the beliefs that enslave you melt away, and you stand, here and now, in the light of your identity as source.