Inner Ephod Snare Revealed

Neville's Inner Vision

In the story, the ephod is not merely a priestly garment but a symbol of worship placed outside the self. Gideon fashions an image of service and truth and sets it in his city, and the people, drawn by the allure of ceremony, turn away from the immediacy of awareness. In Neville's terms, the I AM is always present, and the thoughts and symbols you invest with sacred power are forks in your own consciousness. When you fix your attention on an external object as if it could deliver honor, protection, or identity, you have created a psychological idol. The moment you project life onto the ephod, you forget that life is the activity of the I AM within. The result is a snare not merely around Gideon’s house but around any state of consciousness that depends on outward form for meaning. Judgment follows only when you insist on treating an inner movement as if it were a thing outside you. Return to the belief that the I AM, your true-self, animates all you call real. The ephod can be turned from a snare into a symbol of inner alignment when you revise it in imagination, declaring that this object does not determine your fate but you are the one who commands the vision.