Inner Jealousy and True Worship

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this line, the external idols stand as symbols of a mind enthralled to appearances. When I read that the Lord is a jealous God, I understand jealousy not as petty pester but as the fidelity of the I AM to its own nature. The 'iniquity of the fathers' becomes the habitual thought-patterns imprinted in a family of minds, patterns that visit us until we awaken to a deeper consciousness. The command not to bow and not to serve is a directive to withdraw allegiance from any image that pretends to give reality but cannot, in truth, satisfy the one who seeks. If I hate the separation between my true self and the symbols of the world, I perpetuate that separation; if I align with the awareness that I AM, the imagined chains dissolve. The law of imagination works in the inner man: what is entertained becomes outward fact. So, here the 'generations' are not fixed blood lines but layers of belief; I revise my sense of self, and the visible conditions reorder themselves to reflect a unified consciousness.