Inner Sacrifice and Truth

Neville's Inner Vision

To sin wilfully after the knowledge of the truth is to persist in a consciousness that denies the truth of your I AM. The verse does not threaten punishment from a distant God, but reveals that the moment you linger in fear or guilt after awareness, you have clung to the old sacrifice of separation. There remains no external ritual to appease the inner law because all sacrifice is now only the conversion of your mind. The 'judgment' and 'fiery indignation' are the heat of your own belief turning against you when you refuse to align with truth. Your adversaries are not others, but the stubborn images and memories by which you clothe yourself in ignorance. When you awaken to the fact you are the I AM, you discover that the only sacrifice required is a continual revision of your states of consciousness—seeing yourself anew, and choosing again from the truth you already know. The moment you assume and feel as if you are that truth, the old 'sacrifice' evaporates, and judgment becomes gentle guidance back to the one Source within you.