The Golden Calf Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine that the calf at Horeb is not an external thing but a state of consciousness you have become identified with. The glory spoken of in the psalm is your own divine I AM, your living awareness, not a material idol. By worshipping the molten image you substitute a fixed form for the wholeness of God within, thereby lowering the glory to the likeness of an ox that eats grass. In your life this calf appears as a belief you credit as real—fear, lack, separation, or need for approval—something you attend to as if it were your real self. The cure is not struggle but a revision of assumption: claim I AM as the sole reality and allow every image to be seen as a projection of consciousness, not the ruler of you. When you hold the truth that you are the I AM, the idol dissolves and your genuine glory returns as living awareness. Horeb then becomes a decision point where you choose the state you inhabit, and you awaken to the magnificence that was always yours.