Inner Altar, Outer Flesh

1 Corinthians 10:18 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read 1 Corinthians 10 in context

Scripture Focus

18Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?
1 Corinthians 10:18

Biblical Context

Israel viewed after the flesh means a mind anchored in outward appearances. The verse asks if those who eat of the sacrifices are not partakers of the altar; Neville reframes this as a call to recognize that outer actions reflect the inner state you have already imagined.

Neville's Inner Vision

Behold Israel after the flesh invites you to inspect a mind grounded in the outer, sensory theater. The 'sacrifices' are not merely external rites; they are the beliefs you entertain as the currency of your desires, the stories you tell yourself about life, the roles you perform to feel safe. To 'eat of the sacrifices' is to identify with the altar’s life—the power that makes the offering possible. The altar is not a place outside you but the seat of I AM, your unshadowed awareness. Therefore, to partake of the altar is to align with your true center and to recognize that outward ritual merely mirrors an inner state you insist is real. When you practice assuming the state of complete consciousness—I AM the one who lives, I AM the authority behind every event—you awaken that the outer consumption is but a sign of your inner abiding. The shift is not in changing externals but in revising your assumption of who you are.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Choose a desire and, in a quiet moment, imagine you are the I AM at the altar of your being; repeat 'I AM [your desire] now' and feel it real as your present experience.

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