Slaying Inner Idols: Neville Practice

Neville's Inner Vision

Numbers 25:5 shows the inner state where the higher self commands the end of an idol of the mind. Baalpeor stands for any belief, habit, or craving that would have you worship appearances rather than your true worship of the I AM. The judges of Israel are your inner faculties of discernment; their decree to slay is a symbolic act of disidentifying from the image you have mistaken for yourself. When you imagine you are the I AM, you are not watching a distant event but practicing the inner correction by which you release the ego’s grip and stop feeding external appearances. The command to slay the attachment to Baalpeor is not punishment; it is the natural righting of consciousness, restoring it to single worship within God as you. Each time you insist that an idol governs you, you reinforce separation; the moment you permit the inner judge to act, the idol loses power and memory dissolves, leaving the living I AM to govern from within. This is the inward evolution by which a mind returns to its true devotion.