Dissolving Internal Idols

Neville's Inner Vision

Your verse speaks to states of consciousness, not distant lands. The molten images and the kissing calves are beliefs you have imagined as the source of life, fashioned by your own hands from the silver of memory and the craft of thought. When you declare, 'Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves,' you are consenting to a little god you can hold, control, and fear. Yet these idols, like the morning cloud and the dew, vanish as soon as the sun of awareness rises. The I AM, your true self, does not depart; it remains the unchanging witness while you dream the world into being. Hosea invites you to see that the ruin is not punishment from outside but the consequence of identifying with transient images. By shifting your attention from the image to the inner watcher—consciousness itself—you dissolve the illusion of dependence on those idols. In that posture of awakened imagination, your life flows as a steady, enduring presence, not a brief wisp of smoke.