Inner Idols and False Worship

Neville's Inner Vision

Verse 2 reveals a people who multiply sin by melting silver into images shaped by their own understanding. In Neville's terms, these calves are inner pictures—beliefs fashioned by habit, fear, and desire that pretend to govern life. The cry to kiss the calves marks clinging to externals rather than the Life that animates them. When you understand God as the I AM—your pure awareness—the power of such images wanes. The remedy is not better behavior but a revision of what you assume to be real. Assume that you are the one consciousness that animates all that appears; allow the old image to soften and dissolve as you refuse to worship it as power. Feel the truth that your inner state creates your landscape, and that images serve as signposts, not rulers. With this shift, true worship arises: attention paid to the I AM within, not to the calf without. Your imagination becomes the workshop where what you believe is remade into living form.