Jeremiah 51: Inner Idols

Neville's Inner Vision

Jeremiah's insistence that every idol is lifeless is another way to say that I can fashion lifeless gods from my beliefs. The 'man brutish by his knowledge' is a state of consciousness that trusts surface facts over living awareness. The graven image, the molten image, is my fixed self-image—an idea I have mistaken for life. When the inner visitation comes—the sudden awakening of I AM, the awareness that sustains all I imagine—the idol proves empty, and its vanity is exposed as the work of errors. It cannot endure the light of real being; it dissolves under the warmth of consciousness that feels, knows, and acts from one living source. The old worship, built on theory, collapses into dust as I refuse to identify with it any longer. True worship is not a ritual; it is the felt recognition that I am the I AM, and images exist only in my imagination until I insist they live in me. In that moment the lifelessness ends and life is realized anew.