Inner Idols, False Worship

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville’s view, the graven image is any fixed picture formed in consciousness as if separate from the I AM. Such images promise delight yet profit nothing, for they are not the living reality. They become the person’s own witnesses, testifying to beliefs as truth while the inner sight remains blurred. The verse invites a shift from images to the I AM—the unchanging awareness undergirding all perception. When you surrender the idol and rest in consciousness itself, the sense of separation dissolves and genuine seeing awakens. By deliberately imagining from the end—feeling that your wish is already fulfilled—you re-script the inner state so that the outer world begins to align with that reality. The vanity of the idol is exposed by a vivid inner experiment: the more you dwell in the I AM, the less the outer image controls and the more truth becomes your immediate experience.