Inner Beast and Image Worship

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, the second beast is the polite mind that speaks with dragon power. It wears lamblike horns to mislead you, persuading you to worship the first beast—the old, habitual system you have mistaken for reality. The great wonders and the fire from heaven are the assurances it offers: external signs proving you should submit to a crafted image. The image of the beast, alive and speaking, is your own manufactured idol, the belief you hold that life must conform to that image, and the mark in the hand or forehead is the habit by which you identify with it. No one may buy or sell unless you carry the mark because you have consented to that inner economy. The true remedy is the inward consciousness, the I AM, the awareness that creates all. When you observe, you are called to revise; you are not asked to resist externally but to re-choose who you are. By imagining from the state of I AM and feeling that you are the author of your world, you dissolve the image and render the seeming miracles as invitations to awaken.