Inner Cleansing of Leviticus 16:29-30

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine the seventh month and the tenth day not as an old ritual date, but as a turning inside your consciousness. When you afflict your souls — that is, when you quiet the restless self and withdraw from outward doing — you invite a new movement of awareness. In Neville's language, you are not seeking forgiveness from an external judge, but awakening to the I AM that already stands as your true self. The 'priest' is the inner governor, the silent, all-knowing nature of God within you, who makes atonement by aligning your mind with a truth you now choose to inhabit. The lines 'for on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you' become: a deliberate revision by your inner priest that you are already clean. The purification is of your state, not of distant geography, and its effect is to dissolve the sense of sin or distance from the LORD, leaving you whole in awareness. This is a preparation for living from finished possibility, not begging for forgiveness. You enter a state where what you are becomes what you imagine to be true.