Inner Cleansing for Consciousness

Neville's Inner Vision

To me, the Levitical rite speaks not to ritual alone but to a transformation of consciousness. The goat released to the wilderness is your discarded error thoughts—once identified, once named, you let them go. The washings and the bathing of the flesh are symbolic of a mental cleansing: you refuse to carry the old, dirty thinking back into the camp of your awareness. When the blood and the offerings are carried outside the holy place and burned away, you are told, in the language of spirit, to dispose of the residue of past conditions, to render null the former condition by a decisive act of release. And when the one who burns them washes and returns to the camp, you are reminded that the only genuine purification is an inner return to the I AM, to the living present. The ropes of the old self are cut; the mind is made new by the decision to dwell in pure consciousness, where forgiveness and reconciliation are already accomplished in the now. The ritual thus becomes a map of your own inner process: let go, purify, and re-enter your ordinary experience as a renewed state of awareness.