Inside: The Inner High Priest
Hebrews 5:1-3 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Hebrews 5 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
It says the high priest is chosen from among people to serve in things pertaining to God, offering gifts and sacrifices for sins. He notices the ignorant and the wayward, has compassion for them, for he shares in human infirmity and must likewise offer for his own sins.
Neville's Inner Vision
Remember, Hebrews 5:1-3 speaks of a high priest drawn from among men, who offers gifts and sacrifices for sins and has mercy on the ignorant because he himself is beset with infirmity. In the Neville perspective, this is not a distant office but the state of your own consciousness. The high priest is the I AM within, the ruler of your inner temple. The 'gifts and sacrifices' are the usable forms of your imagination—assumptions, revisions, and felt-sense moments of forgiveness you offer to your own mind. The mercy extended to the ignorant and the one in the way is your willingness to be compassionate toward your flawed self, since you too are subject to limitation. By reason of this infirmity, you must also offer for sins unto yourself as well as to the people of your life; you claim change by honoring the whole picture of yourself. The inner priesthood acts not by ritual alone, but by the steady act of choosing love and awareness over limitation.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and assume, for a few minutes, the role of the inner high priest. Imagine offering forgiveness to the parts of you that err and revising the present moment as already made whole by your compassionate awareness; then rest in the felt sense of I AM presiding over your life.
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