Inner Allure of Idolatry

Neville's Inner Vision

Your inner me is not defending a distant empire but the living sense of you that clings to glitter and status. Aholibah stands for the facet that loves glamour—the Assyrians, the Chaldeans—the princes who seem to look to be looked at. The wall-pictures, vermilion images, and gilded attire symbolize a momentum within: the impulse to be seen, to possess worth, to secure happiness through appearance. When you watch these images with attachment, you consent to defilement; your energy flows outward to chase symbols rather than rest in the I AM. Ezekiel shows that once the mind yields to one such image, it intensifies its whoredoms, multiplying the stories you tell yourself about need, fame, and power. Yet the cure is simple: awaken to the awareness that your reality is the I AM and that imagination is the instrument by which you revise it. If you detach from the lure and say, 'I am the I AM,' the images dissolve, and you begin to feel the quiet sovereignty within.