The Inner Image Allegory

Neville's Inner Vision

In Daniel’s decree you hear the universal chorus of external conditions pressing you to conform to a supposed reality. Neville’s approach reads this as a state of consciousness, where the golden image is any outward idol—the opinion of the crowd, the lure of success, the demand for safety—that would have you forget your I AM. The sound of music represents stimuli that try to move you to fall down and worship the image. Yet your true realm is within awareness that animates all perception. The “fiery furnace” is the heat of inner transformation that follows when you resist identification with the image and keep faith with your inner image. By choosing to stand in the I AM — the awareness that you are the creator of your experience — you reverse the apparent power of the decree. In that reversal, the outer world becomes a mirror of your inner state, and the image you hold becomes the reality you live.