Inner Tabernacle Atonement

Neville's Inner Vision

Seen through the I AM, Leviticus 16:17 reveals that the holy act occurs within a sealed inner space. There is no spectator in the tabernacle because the state of purification must be complete within your consciousness before your external world can reflect forgiveness. The high priest is you, the 'I', entering the inner sanctuary to purify first yourself, then your household, then all Israel—the whole circle of your life. This is not a ritual separated from you; it is the movement of consciousness from unawareness to wholeness. The 'no man' in the tabernacle is the momentary cessation of noise, the clearing of competing thoughts so that one can attend to the single act of right believing. When you finish the inner atonement, you come out as if sanctified in your world, and forgiveness can flow to your outer life. The verse invites you to treat your entire being—the personal, the familial, the communal—as one landscape of consciousness that must be purified in the same instant.