Inner Altar and Idols
Hosea 11:2 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Hosea 11 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verse states that as people call on idols, they drift away from them, performing sacrifices to Baalim and incense to carved images, revealing their inner dispositions by outward ritual.
Neville's Inner Vision
In this line the idol is a symbol of the mind's belief in separation. When you 'call' Baalim, you are naming and worshiping a state of consciousness that pretend-ly stands apart from the I AM. Your rituals—external sacrifices and incense to images—show you are investing power in a form rather than in the indwelling I AM. The awakened reader recognizes that the movement away from the idol mirrors a shift in inner state; the cure is to re-anchor attention in the one consciousness that animates all: I AM. By assuming the feeling of your wholeness, you dissolve the sense of distance between self and symbol. Idols have no real power outside the you you imagine yourself to be; when you claim unity with the source within, the Baalim and carved images fade, and true worship arises as a living, inner alignment with God—your own I AM.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes, breathe, and assume the feeling: I AM the I AM, the sole altar of my life. Revise the sense of separation until the inner idol dissolves into light.
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