Inner Image-Free Worship

Neville's Inner Vision

To know the truth of this text is to discover that the 'graven image' is the image you have of God as separate from you in your own mind. In Neville's terms, the fire on Horeb is the signal of inner illumination, not a temple's flame; the command is a guard against giving reality to forms that would divide you from the I AM. When you spend your attention on statues, beads, or creeds, you are imagining a world apart from your own consciousness. Your true worship is a recognizing that you are the one source of all you behold; you are the I AM in whom all things exist. Therefore, do not battle images with reason but revise your inner picture until it matches the state you desire. If you feel lack, imagine the feeling of abundance already yours; if you feel fear, imagine the calm of the I AM steady within. Every form you claim as ultimate truth is a movement of your own mind; cease identifying with it and identify with consciousness itself. The moment you know yourself as the I AM, the seen will respond to your inner shift.