Turning From Idols Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Reader, the verse is not about others alone; it reveals a state of consciousness that refuses to turn from belief in separate powers. 'They hearken not' is your mind's stubborn habit of fixing on appearances, and 'to burn incense unto other gods' is the persistence of idols you have made real in your life—lack, status, judgment, or fear. In Neville's terms, God is the I AM within, and imagination is the instrument by which you revise reality. When you attend to the outer gods, you empower them; when you cease listening to the voice of limitation and turn your attention inward, you arrest the idolography of your world. The remedy is simple: acknowledge the inner state and revise it until your feeling confirms a different outcome. See yourself not as the observer of idols but as the I AM, the one awareness that permits no other power. As you entertain the truth that you are one with the divine, the incense to counterfeit gods fades, and true worship—alignment with the I AM—is restored within your own consciousness.