Sacred Nourishment, Inner Consequences

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the 'offering' as your own inner state considered holy. To eat it is to mingle a profane mind with the holy; thus you bear the iniquity because you have profaned the LORD's hallowed thing within you. In Neville's sense, the verse is a plain map of your inner life: when you dwell in a consciousness that denies your I AM, you separate yourself from the true community of your being. The consequence is not a punishment from without, but a felt severing from your higher self—the sense that you are cut off from your essential life. Yet the remedy is immediate and simple: assume you are the holy thing you have profaned. revise the belief, feel it real that you stand in the presence of your absolute purity, and let that inner state dissolve the old estrangement. When you persist in this new assumption, the outer world reflects the inner unity, and the self that was 'cut off' returns to the community of your true consciousness.