Inner Feast of Consecration

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, the flesh and bread are not merely meat and food but symbols of a state of consciousness you are invited to digest into your being. The seething in the holy place mirrors the inward fire by which the false self is consumed, leaving the real I AM intact. When Aaron and his sons eat the ram and the bread, they are affirming that the atonement has wrought a new alignment within them; they become custodians of a covenant consciousness, a presence that cannot be shared with the unconsecrated. The rule that a stranger may not eat points to the inner law: only the awakened awareness that has entered the sacred can sustain the feast. And the instruction to burn any remainder by morning shows that this state is not a memory to carry lightly into the next day; it must be fused into your daily life. To practice it, you must dwell in the holy place of your imagination, taste the consequence of your own atonement, and let the old nature be burned away by the fire of awareness.