Inner Idols, True Worship
Ezekiel 23:20-21 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Ezekiel 23 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The text uses animal imagery to describe idolatry and its remembered youthful compromises with foreign powers.
Neville's Inner Vision
Within the vision, Ezekiel is not describing others but a state of consciousness. The 'she' who doted on her paramours represents a mind enthralled by outer influences—desires, habits, and social scripts—that seem powerful but are only cravings in disguise. The flesh of asses and the issue like horses signal crude appetites racing to reproduce themselves, a self-hypnotized drive that never satisfies. The recall of youth and the bruising of teats by the Egyptians is memory of past identifications with external cultures that fed the ego’s longing for validation. In Neville's terms, you are not condemned; you have merely identified with a set of thoughts and emotions. Your task is to withdraw attention from these idols and return to the I AM—the unchanging awareness that you experience events as mental movies. Worship truly is inner alignment: revise the image, feel the reality of wholeness, and let your inner life orbit around the higher self rather than sensational attachments.
Practice This Now
Assume the sentence 'I am the I AM, free from the idols of craving.' Then revise the scene in your mind, seeing the temple of your heart emptied of those images and feeling the steady presence of consciousness.
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