Inner Wealth, Outer Idolatry

Neville's Inner Vision

Verse 17:4 is not a tale about a distant queen; it is a map of your inner states. The purple and scarlet, the gold and pearls, are the colors you give to status, craving, and ceremony. The golden cup full of abominations names the habitual content you drink as sacred belief—pictures of lack, triumph, and identity formed by others’ gaze. When you identify with these images, you worship forms and neglect the formless I AM, and your life mirrors perpetual appetite that never satisfies. You remain captive to appearances and to wealth as you imagine it, rather than to the one power that animates all forms. To awaken, return to the I AM. Assume you are already the wealth you seek—provision, beauty, integrity—because wealth is the nature of consciousness, not a bank account or ceremony. Revise the scene in imagination: let the cup be emptied and filled with the living water of awareness; let the luster of purple and scarlet fade into the gentle glow of unchanging Presence. Feel it as real now: you are the one consciousness, and this wholeness expresses as every good you desire. In this shift, the outer empire yields to true worship—purity, integrity, and inner life.