Inner Idols of Isaiah 41:24

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the Isaiah line, idols are not bronze or wood but beliefs that you have separated yourself from the I AM. When you call something outside you 'powerful', you have made that thing an idol and you have bowed to a fiction, a work of nothing. Behold, ye are of nothing means your sense of must-be-ness rests not in external forms but in consciousness; the 'abomination' who chooses you is the one who doubts his own I AM and thus yields to limitation. The call is not to deny outer forms, but to illumine them with awareness. You do not become free by destroying objects, but by recognizing that you are the source, the ever-present I AM that dreams the forms. As you insist in imagination that you are the reality behind every appearance, the idol loses its grip and collapses into you, who creates it. In the inner theatre, there is no other power; all 'idols' are dreams arising in the mind of the awakened state—the I AM awake and aware, and thus all idols vanish into nothingness.