Dismantling Inner Idols

Neville's Inner Vision

Take this verse as a map of inner cleansing. The altar at Bethel is not a stone, but a habit of worship that depends on external forms. The high place Jeroboam set up stands for a counterfeit self-image—an inner belief that God is elsewhere, that power dwells in temples of idolatry rather than in the I AM. When the king breaks, burns, and pulverizes them, he proclaims, in the language of consciousness, that nothing external holds authority over the soul. You, too, are invited to perform this purgation within. Each dedicated altar to separation dissolves into quiet, the high place of self-doubt dissolves into realized unity, and the grove of attachment collapses into a release of true life in God. The act is not violence against history but a symbolic revision of your inner story: you confront the old image, deny it, and crown the I AM as the sole ruler of your inner temple. The result is a clearing of space where only divine presence remains, and you awaken to the fact that what you worship in external rites you already are in the I AM.