Inward Worship of the I AM

Neville's Inner Vision

Begin with this awareness: the 'fathers' and their blasphemies are not distant peoples but states of your own consciousness clinging to idols. The land given is your present awareness; the high hills and thick trees symbolize fixed beliefs and desires you keep feeding with ritual. When you imagine offerings there, you are offering substitutes for the living I AM. The provocation is your habit of going elsewhere for blessing, rather than listening to the Presence within. The question—'Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers?'—invites you to see that separation persists in thoughts as much as in history. And the line about passing children through the fire warns against sacrificing your true sense of self to fear-based idols. The cure is simple: renounce the reliance on outward tokens and inquire of the I AM within. In you, the Source stands still and awake; when you assume that awareness, you need ask nothing of geography or ritual. You will find that the I AM is listening, and you, in turn, become the vessel through which God’s desire manifests.