Inner Security vs False Idolatry

Neville's Inner Vision

This is a waking cry of consciousness. When you forget the God of your salvation—the I AM within—you turn to pleasant outward securities, planting them and binding them with strange slips. In truth, no outward plant can outlast the inner rock of strength you carry as your awareness. The 'planting' is your habit of trusting appearances: partnerships, rituals, and possessions that promise safety but depend on appearances. The remedy is not to abandon action, but to abandon dependency on outward symbols and to return to the inner recognition that God is your awareness and the power through which all acts occur. Rest in the realization that you are the living rock, and that your imagination is the seedbed from which reality arises. By assuming the feeling of already having that inner strength, you revise the scene until the external world reflects the security of your inner God.