The Inner Sacrifice of Atonement

Neville's Inner Vision

Before the altar of your awareness, the bullock is the stubborn self you have identified with. When you place your hands on its head, you are naming that old consciousness and consenting to its surrender. To kill the bullock is to revoke that habitual image in the space where I AM—the infinite, present awareness—dwells. The blood on the horns of the altar is the life-force you consecrate to a higher idea; you draw that energy into the core of your worship, not to bargain with it but to reassign it to a new perception. Burning the fat, the kidneys, and the caul represents releasing the appetites and strategies that once seemed indispensable; these inner faculties are offered to the altar until their mere instrumentality is revealed as Being itself. The flesh, skin, and dung burned outside the camp symbolize removing old outward actions from daily life so the sacred can inhabit the center of your being. In that moment, atonement becomes a present realization: you awaken to pure awareness, and you live from the I AM.