Inner Offerings of Ezekiel

Neville's Inner Vision

Within you, the temple keeps a rhythm. The sabbath offering is not a ritual you perform for an external deity, but a restoration of your own awareness—the I AM—the prince who rules your mind. Six lambs and a ram, and the bullock with the new moon, become symbols of clean, uninterrupted thought and the energy you supply to it. The blemish-less beasts reflect a state of consciousness unburdened by guilt, fear, or doubt; the meat offering and oil are the ways you feed and anoint the living image you are becoming. When you attend to the inner altar, you calibrate attention by proportion: you give the mind enough meat to sustain steady feeling, enough oil to keep oiling the imagination with faith, and you rest in the certainty that the LORD within is always present. The day of renewal—new moon—marks a shift in awareness, a fresh commitment to holiness and order. The outward numbers are guides; the inner act is imagination rightly directed, formed by faith in the I AM. Practice this: enter the sabbath of consciousness, and renew your state by a felt-reality declaration that you are the temple, and the temple is whole.