Inner Cleansing and Atonement

Neville's Inner Vision

To the seeker, this Levitical rite is a symbol of the soul's inner reorientation. The 'issue' points not to a bodily condition but to a consciousness believed separate from the I AM. Seven days of cleansing become a deliberate return of attention to a pure state, a bathing in the living water of awareness that refreshes the entire being. On the eighth day, the two birds unfold as inner acts: one bird discharges the sense of sin, the other consecrates the whole self anew to God. The priest is your inner self, the state of awareness that proclaims at-one-ment between you and the divine. Thus the ceremony models your daily practice: release lack through renewed faith in unity, cleanse the inner clothes of thought, and let the mind watchfully assent to the truth that you are already clean. In your imagination, you enter this order and find harmony returning to your life.