Hidden Idols, Visible I AM

Neville's Inner Vision

In this tale the tent is your inner sanctuary, and the 'images' are the inner idols you secretly cling to—images you mistake for power outside you. Laban represents the outer world of appearances and evidence; his search failing shows that outward proof cannot remove the idol's hold when you have not renamed it in the mind. The line about 'the custom of women' is not merely culture but a justification for hiding belief; yet Rachel’s act also reveals a deeper honesty: she sits upon the symbols rather than acknowledging them, keeping the inner idol intact by consent of habit. The Neville-like path is simple: bring the idols to awareness and revise them as nothing. Assume you are already free; feel that the I AM within you is all authority, and that the images have no reality apart from consciousness. When you imagine that truth and 'feel it real,' the outer circumstances lose their power to locate or fix those symbols. Worship becomes alignment with God within, not allegiance to forms. Imagination creates reality; you rewrite the scene until it matches the fact that you are the I AM.