Blood, Life, and Inner Covenant

Neville's Inner Vision

Leviticus 17:10-12 appears as a directive about blood, yet Neville would read it as a directive to guard your inner life. The 'life of the flesh is in the blood' is not medical; it is the clue that life-energy, the I AM that you truly are, circulates through your feeling and attention. The altar is the focal point of your awareness where you offer this life-energy to the One Power within. When I say 'no soul shall eat blood,' I mean: refuse to feed your imagination with fear, guilt, or lack, for that is draining the life you are, and cutting yourself off from your true covenant with yourself. The strangers that sojourn are the various parts of you—habits, identities, memories—that wander into your field of consciousness. The constraint is a discipline that keeps your life-force directed toward wholeness, not consumption. By treating every thought, every feeling, as an act offered to the altar, you make atonement for the soul—restoring harmony between your inner self and the divine awareness you are.