Inner Idols, Outer Wrath

Neville's Inner Vision

Reading Acts 19:28 through Neville Goddard's lens, Diana becomes not a goddess of a distant city but an image of power held in the mind. When the speaker’s words threaten that image, wrath erupts because the ego resists the acknowledgment that its idol is only a thought in consciousness. In Neville’s psychology, the crowd’s cry is a collective belief that an outer thing controls life. Yet there is no power apart from awareness; God—the I AM within you—is the sole governing reality. The scene thus becomes a drama of inner warfare: the old sense of self clinging to a counterfeit 'greatness' versus the truth that you are the living idea of God. The true battle is not against people but against the habit of identifying with images rather than with the I AM. By recognizing that every external deity is a projection of inner consciousness, you can revise the moment: affirm that the I AM is supreme and that all apparent idols are only thoughts dissolving in the light of awareness. In that light, worship shifts from ritual to inward alignment with God.