Inner Altar and Laver: Exodus 31:9
Exodus 31:9 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Exodus 31 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Exodus 31:9 lists the altar with its furnishings and the laver with its foot, presenting a sacred inventory that points to inner preparation and consecration.
Neville's Inner Vision
In Neville’s reading, the altar and its furniture are not external objects but states of consciousness and inner faculties arranged within you. The altar of burnt offering represents your readiness to surrender a worn self to the fire of divine desire for truth, transforming lack into faith through the act of willing. The furniture signifies your inner capacities—imagination, memory, will, and discernment—placed in their proper order to serve a single, holy act. The laver and its foot symbolize the cleansing of perception by awareness: not washing the body, but purifying how you see and feel. This verse becomes a map of your inner sanctuary, where you are the tabernacle and your state of consciousness determines your life’s arrangement. When you align with the I AM, you use the altar to release limitation and allow the fire of consciousness to refine your desires, while the laver offers continuous clarity, washing away the impression of separation and returning you to a unified act with the whole. True worship, then, is the maintenance of this inner order through continual awareness.
Practice This Now
1) Sit quietly, close your eyes, and assume the stance of the altar—willing to relinquish a limiting self-concept. 2) See the laver before you and imagine its cleansing flow washing your perception until you perceive from your purified center, and affirm, 'I am the I AM, here and now.'
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