Inner Altar Renewal

Neville's Inner Vision

All these outward acts are but the theater of your inner state. The seven days symbolize seven movements of consciousness you must pass through to awaken the true altar within. Each daily offering is a decision to release a remembered fault; each purification of the altar is a revision of a belief that has claimed you. The goat for sin, the flawless bullock and ram, are not animals but your faculties rightly offered to the I AM. When you purge the altar you declare, I am no longer identified with that error; I consecrate myself to the higher use of mind. The eighth day marks the birth of a new condition—the state in which your burnt offerings and peace offerings are now acceptable because you have aligned with the divine I AM within. You are not changing God’s mind; you are shifting your own state into harmony with God’s acceptance. Practice this by assuming the end: you already stand as the accepted one. Feel the truth in body and breath, and let imagination carry you to the fulfillment you already possess.