Whom Will You Liken God

Neville's Inner Vision

To the reader, the question is not what God is out there, but what state of consciousness one is entertaining as God. The verse exposes the habit of fashioning images to feel secure: a workman shaping a form, a goldsmith gilding it, and belief binding it with chains. The impoverished worshiper choosing a tree reveals the impulse to grasp solidity through tangible objects when the living Presence seems distant. Yet the instruction points beyond stone and wood to attention itself. You are the I AM; all images are projections of inner sensations and assumptions. When you declare, 'God is like this,' you are naming your own boundary. If you long to behold a God unchangeable, you revise the picture and accept the I AM as the sole reality. In your imagination, assume you are the living God; feel the move of consciousness within that makes every image respond to your inner state. Persist, and the idol dissolves, reordering your world from a center that cannot be moved.