Inner Justice Of Exodus 21:32

Neville's Inner Vision

I do not speak of oxen and servants as outer facts, but as symbols of inner states. The 'ox' represents a stubborn impulse or belief that pushes against your own inner man—your awareness. When such pushing occurs, the mind consciousness pays a price through its own act of attention, which the scripture names as thirty shekels: a valuation you set upon the injury caused when you yield to a lower state. The master to whom the price is paid stands for the I Am within you—the eternal, observing self that cannot be fooled by appearances. When you imagine yourself liable to punishment, you are not decreeing punishment from without; you are waking to the fact that you, and you alone, are the cause of your appearances. The stoning of the ox then symbolizes discarding the faulty impulse, not vengeance, so that your inner covenant remains intact—the promise that consciousness is king and you may revoke any lie about separation by a re-creation of your state.