Inner Idols Dissolved

Neville's Inner Vision

Paul embodies the inner conviction that the true God is not a statue or a name on a petition, but the I AM that fills awareness. The 'gods made with hands' are the mental pictures you have worshipped—identities, roles, possessions—that you mistake for life. When he persuades and turns people away, he is illustrating how consciousness can withdraw its belief from form and reorient itself toward the living presence that animates all. Asia, broad in reach, shows that this is not a local affair but a universal tendency to give reality to appearances. The act of turning away is not resistance but revelation: awareness awakens from the illusion of separate gods and recognizes unity in the One I AM. Your practice, then, is to identify a form you still honor as real and, through an inner assumption, declare that it is not the power; the power is the I AM within you. By feeling this truth as real, your inner world shifts and what you worship changes from image to inner life.