Inner Sacrifice And Firstfruits

Neville's Inner Vision

Exodus 23:18-19 is a guide to inner order. In Neville’s sense, the temple is your own consciousness and God is the I AM that you are aware of. Blood, leaven, fat, and milk are symbols of states of mind and motive. Leaven represents habitual doubt and untruth that poison a clean offering; to mix blood with leaven is to present life while clinging to a corrupt pattern. The instruction not to keep the fat until morning invites you to release the old state and offer in the moment, fresh and undiluted. The firstfruits are the earliest, finest impressions your imagination can form; bring them to the house of the Lord as a declaration that your consciousness leads and sustains your life. The prohibition on seething a kid in its mother’s milk warns against mixing incompatible faculties in one act. It is a call to unity and integrity: go to the inner altar with a single, pure state, and let your outer world reflect that coherence. Practice: assume the state of the fulfilled man who offers the best of his consciousness to God, then feel it real until life conforms.