Inner Altar Desolation

Neville's Inner Vision

Within you, the altars are your fixed assumptions and the images are the pictures you worship—your ideas of security, identity, and worth. When you cling to these idols, the inner altar remains desolate and the outer forms stay intact, and the slain are the parts of you that die whenever you mistake the idol for reality. The voice behind this scripture is not a distant judge but the I AM within, dissolving the idolatries by revealing truth: I cast down your slain self before your idols when you name truth as it is. Desolation, then, is not punishment but a cleansing—the old beliefs crumble, the images fall away, and you stand revealed as the watcher rather than the worshiper of forms. Ezekiel's word becomes a living invitation to revision: imagine the old altar turning to dust, the idol losing its grip, and the freed self rising into the simple presence of awareness. In that space, true worship — the worship of the I AM — awakens you to your boundless nature.