Neville Goddard on Exodus 30:7-10 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Exodus 30 in context

Scripture Focus

7And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.

8And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.

9Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon.

10And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto the LORD.

Exodus 30:7-10

Biblical Context

Exodus 30:7-10 presents Aaron burning sweet incense twice daily as a perpetual sign of worship; it also forbids foreign offerings and prescribes annual atonement on the altar's horns.

Neville's Inner Vision

From the Neville vantage, the altar is your inner life, and the incense is the steady flame of awareness you keep lit within. The morning and evening duties are not external rites but the rhythm of consciousness awakening and returning to itself. The perpetual incense is a constant mood of reverence you sustain, so that no foreign scent--no doubt, no fatigue of belief--can shift you from the presence you are. When the text says not to offer strange incense, it points to the discipline of guarding your inner temple against borrowed thoughts and projections; you trim the branches of suspicion and keep attention fixed on the I AM that you are. The annual atonement on the horns of the altar symbolizes the opportunity to revise any story of separation at your core, returning again to the truth of unity with the divine Presence. The holiness spoken of is not a distant creed but the immediacy of consciousness experienced as your own life. You are not changing God's mind; you are choosing to inhabit the one reality, the Presence, now.

Practice This Now

Practice: Each morning and night, sit a few minutes and imagine a sweet incense rising from your center; declare silently, 'I AM,' and feel the awareness filling your being as a calm perfume. Stay with the sensation until it feels real.