Inner Desolation of Idols

Neville's Inner Vision

To the inner self, Ezekiel 6:3-6 is not a history lesson but a mirror of consciousness. The mountains of Israel are the states of mind you have treated as power centers; the Lord GOD speaking is the I AM within you. The sword upon you is the moment of inner discrimination that pierces belief and cuts through images you have worshipped. When your altars are desolate and your images broken, you are witnessing the collapse of idolatries—fear, lack, guilt, the sense of separation—that you previously fed with your attention. Casting down the slain before your idols shows that you expose and release the dead dreams you once honored; to scatter your bones around your altars is to release attachments to old patterns and memories. In every dwelling place, the cities are laid waste; this is the revelation that the high places you erected are not real but thoughts you chose to give reality. The aim, however, is tenderness: the altars are laid waste so that idols cease and your life can reveal the true worship of I AM, the one consciousness that creates, sustains, and liberates.