Inner Temple Dedication Practice

Ezra 6:17-18 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Ezra 6 in context

Scripture Focus

17And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
18And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses.
Ezra 6:17-18

Biblical Context

Ezra 6:17-18 records the dedication of the temple with offerings and the orderly service of priests and Levites according to Moses.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the inner sense, the house of God is your own consciousness, and the offerings are parables of your fixed mental states. The hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and the goats for atonement are symbolic deposits of energy you place upon the altar of awareness, to consecrate the imagining that serves the I AM. The act of setting the priests in divisions and the Levites in courses is an inner order, a disciplined arrangement of thoughts and habits that cooperate for the service of God in Jerusalem, your center of awareness. Moses' book speaks of an inward law—the law of right identification. When you stand in this dedication, you acknowledge that your consciousness can be ordered, offered, and redirected toward the divine. This is not ritual for a distant temple, but a practice of claiming your wholeness and oneness with God. By seeing yourself as the one who offers and serves, you awaken to the truth that the material world reflects your inner state.

Practice This Now

Impose the feeling that I AM governs this temple of mind; revise lack by declaring 'I am whole, I am Presence here now.' Then imagine placing these states as offerings on the altar of your consciousness.

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