Inner Altar of Atonement

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the outward rite as a parable of your inner state. The bullocks, rams, lambs, and goats symbolize aspects of your consciousness in need of cleansing. The blood sprinkled on the altar represents the living energy of awareness moving through your mind—the I AM that witnesses your thoughts. The altar itself is the theater of your attention, the field where every impulse is measured by the I AM. When hands are laid on the goats for the sin offering, see that you are laying hold of a mistaken pattern of being and transferring its charge into the altar of awareness. The killing and the reconciliation with blood are the inner releasing of fear, guilt, and separation by the fire of attention, so that atonement is accomplished within your present state. The king commanding this for all Israel signifies the totalizing nature of your consciousness—wholeness extending to every part of self. Thus, the old division dissolves as you align with your I AM, perceiving reconciliation as a present, felt reality rather than a distant ritual.