Neville Goddard on Exodus 30:7-8 - 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.

Exodus 30:7-8

Biblical Context

Aaron is to burn sweet incense every morning and at dusk, creating a perpetual incense before the LORD.

Neville's Inner Vision

Exodus presents not a ritual of bricks and smoke, but a symbol of your own inner worship. The command to burn incense morning and evening is a directive to maintain a continuous state of attention, a perpetual petition of the I AM within. The incense is the thought and feeling fused, a miniature fire that keeps the lamps of consciousness dressed and lit. When you imagine the incense rising, you are not inviting an external god to descend; you are awakening the God within, the I AM that you are conscious of. The two daily acts correspond to the two movements of attention: dawn and dusk, begin with gratitude and end with reverence, yet in truth you remain in the presence at all times. The moment you assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled, the inner temple becomes a place where separation dissolves and holiness is realized. Your external world reflects this inner state as the smoke of communion within.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and imagine a gentle incense rising in your inner temple with each breath, the I AM affirming presence. Hold that sensation for a few minutes at morning and again at sunset, and let the imagined ritual revise your sense of reality as already complete.