Idols as Inner Burdens

Neville's Inner Vision

Bel and Nebo are not distant deities; they are images in my own consciousness—the stubborn beliefs by which I claim security and power. When I call something outside myself God, the mind obliges by drawing energy into the image, and the beasts carry the carriages of my attention. The heavy load is simply the weariness of insisting that life comes from forms rather than from the I AM that I am aware of. Yet when I stop worshiping these symbols and affirm, I AM the only power, the idols recede. The beasts become symbols for the energies I once poured into dependency, and the carriages turn light under the recognition that awareness itself sustains all. I can revise by declaring: God is the I AM within me; these images have no authority here. As I dwell in that truth, the weight drops, and the mind moves freely, animated by imagination under the sovereignty of my realized self. This is how the internal kingdom replaces outer idols with a luminous inner reality.