Inner Wash and Sacred Offering

Neville's Inner Vision

To the inner man, the instruction is not a distant ceremony but a map of consciousness. The washing of inward parts and legs stands for purifying the states of mind and the actions that flow from them. Water is attention; to wash is to rinse away doubt, fear, and mixed motives from the center of awareness. When the priest burns all on the altar, identify it as the complete acceptance of your life by the one Life within you. The offering, burned as an aroma, is the alignment of your entire being—feeling, thought, and purpose—into the divine desire. The sweet savour is not in rites, but in the sensibility of consciousness that acknowledges 'I AM' as both source and receiver of all. When you hold this image, you awaken to your own state—your inner disposition becoming a fragrant consent to the higher self. The flesh of the old self yields to the fire of awareness; what remains is the undisturbed sense of divine living.