Neville Goddard on Exodus 24:4-5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Exodus 24 in context

Scripture Focus

4And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

5And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD.

Exodus 24:4-5

Biblical Context

Moses records the LORD’s words, builds an altar, and raises twelve pillars; the people then offer burnt and peace offerings.

Neville's Inner Vision

Exodus 24:4-5 speaks not of outward ritual, but of the inner covenant you awaken in consciousness. Moses writes the LORD’s words upon your mind, and your first act is to set an altar within the hill of your awareness. The twelve pillars are the twelve tribes of your being—your twelve faculties—loyal, steadfast points through which devotion is established. When you lift the offerings, burnt and peace offerings, you are not feeding God apart from you; you are releasing attachments and aligning feeling with divine purpose. The burnt offering signifies the old self burned away by the certainty of I AM presence; the peace offering embodies harmony between your will and divine will. This is true worship: obedience to the higher self, faithfulness to the inner covenant of being. The scene is not history but a mental fact you enact in imagination until it becomes your lived state. Your consciousness is the altar; your awareness the flame; your loyalty to the truth the twelve pillars holding steady the house of God within you.

Practice This Now

Assume you have already established the inner altar and twelve pillars. Close your eyes, feel the warmth at your chest, and declare the state of I AM as your constant reality; imagine releasing old thoughts as burnt offerings and greeting new, harmonious feelings as peace offerings.