Neville Goddard on Exodus 29:1-14 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Exodus 29 in context

Scripture Focus

1And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest's office: Take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish,

2And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.

3And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams.

4And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with water.

5And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod:

6And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre.

7Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him.

8And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them.

9And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.

10And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock.

11And thou shalt kill the bullock before the LORD, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

12And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar.

13And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar.

14But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering.

Exodus 29:1-14

Biblical Context

The passage describes the consecration rite for the priesthood: washing, garments, anointing, offerings, and the dedicated service of Aaron and his sons to God.

Neville's Inner Vision

All of this is a map of the inner work of your consciousness, not a history of animals. The bullock stands for the old self put to death by awareness; the two rams symbolize the two streams of thought you bring to the altar of your I AM. When Aaron is washed and robed, you are washed free of limitation and dressed in a new self-image that you consciously choose. The anointing oil poured on the head is the felt sense of God’s nearness saturating your mind, turning your thoughts toward holiness. The consecration of the garments, girdle, mitre, and crown is your decision to wear a holy identity—an inner representation that you minister from a sacred throne inside you. The blood on the horns of the altar signifies the shedding of old identifier-energy into the altar of the heart, and the fat burned on the altar is the release of attachments to outcomes; the sin-offering outside the camp reminds you to separate guilt from your living space, to keep the center untainted. In this way, Exodus 29 reveals how you establish and continually renew the kingdom within, by a disciplined act of consciousness.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume you are consecrated as priest of your own consciousness; feel the oil of awareness anointing your head and the sacred garments settling upon you, then affirm inwardly: I am holy unto the LORD of my being.