Breath Behind Idols

Neville's Inner Vision

Jeremiah's revelation is not about distant stones, but about your own mind. The graven image is any belief you have programmed as truth, a form without the breath of life. It appears to have power because you have given it attention; yet it is only a shadow in the theater of your consciousness. When you inquire, 'Who am I that breathes life into this form?' you find that the breath is your I AM, the steady awareness that never dies. As you dwell in that I AM, the image loses aura and vanishes into vanity—the work of errors, as the text says. The visitation you fear is simply the consequence of living as if the image were real. Real life returns when you stop feeding the idol and feed the consciousness that animates all forms. You are the life that gives breath to every image, and in that recognition you are free from the lie of idols.