Blood on the Inner Altar

Neville's Inner Vision

Close your eyes and attend to the scene as your inner theatre. The bullock stands for a stubborn self-image you have condemned to death by your attention. When you 'kill' it in imagination, you release its hold and let blood—the life-force of awareness—flow to the altar at the door of the tabernacle of your congregation. The priests are your faculties awakening to the fact that consciousness is the instrument of creation; they sprinkle the blood around the altar, circling your center with vitality and intention. This act isn't outward sacrifice but an inward purification: you consecrate the space by imagining the energy seeping into every corner of your awareness. By so doing you separate the old state from your present sense of self, and you awaken to the realization that God—your I AM—dwells in you, not in some distant place. The ritual becomes a mental habit that renews your sense of worship as a felt reality of being.