Eighth Day of Inner Cleansing

Neville's Inner Vision

On the inner level, the eighth day speaks of a new birth in consciousness. The lambs and the oil are not animal sacrifices pressed by outward ritual, but images of states you must acknowledge and welcome into your awareness. In Neville’s language, the LORD stands for your I AM, the universal awareness within you that can only be reached by a turn of attention. The two lambs signify the parts of yourself that you offer to be refined—the impulsive or mistaken self and the more tender, beloved self—and the ewe lamb of the first year is the fresh, unblemished possibility you choose to embody. The flour mingled with oil is the sustaining thought-form you feed this new state; the log of oil is the felt presence by which you “wet” the offering with consciousness. The priest and the holy place symbolize your inner authority and the place where this transformation occurs: within your own awareness. When you slay the lamb within the holy place, you are not killing something apart from you; you are consenting to let a higher, purified self take its rightful place. The trespass offering becoming most holy marks the unity of guilt and wholeness resolved in I AM.