Inner Ram of Consecration

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the ram of the consecration as the living quality you choose to honor within your being. In your inner theatre, take that part of you that has served the ego and set it apart to be purified in the sanctuary of awareness. The instruction to seethe its flesh in the holy place is a discipline of feeling and attention: the heat you bring to thought, the relentless examination of habit, melts away the old self-image until its grip loosens. As you persist in the I AM—that vast, watchful presence—you witness the transformation as if the inner flesh dissolves and reforms as a finer substance, making room for a state of holy devotion to rise. This is not a ritual done to you, but a state you inhabit until your external world merely reflects the clarity of your consciousness. Your true worship, here and now, is the consistent assumption of a consecrated self living within the sanctuary of awareness.