Inner Counsel, Idols, and Wholeness

Neville's Inner Vision

Your verses speak not of distant rites but of a present awakening. Hosea names the mind that seeks counsel outside the self—the 'stocks' and 'staff'—as the substitute for the living I AM. The 'spirit of whoredoms' is the restless imagination that drifts from its God and enthrones images, rituals, and measured opinions as if they were the source of security. When you live under that spell, you imagine you dwell under a shade that seems good, yet it is only a projection of lack, fear, and appetite. The moment you cease chasing outer signatures and return your attention to the I AM—identical to your real I, the witness of every thought—the entire sense of separation dissolves. The daughters and spouses are but symbols of a culture of desire that forgets its true Shepherd, a forgetting that creates famine in understanding and falls in its own made-up laws. The cure is not punishment but awareness: you revise your identification from 'my idol' to 'I AM within,' and you feel it real by dwelling in the conviction that all counsel, all worship, emerges from the I AM and is always present, unchanging and sufficient.