Neville Goddard on Leviticus 2:14-16 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Leviticus 2 in context

Scripture Focus

14And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the LORD, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green ears of corn dried by the fire, even corn beaten out of full ears.

15And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon: it is a meat offering.

16And the priest shall burn the memorial of it, part of the beaten corn thereof, and part of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

Leviticus 2:14-16

Biblical Context

In plain terms, the verse speaks of offering the firstfruits as purified corn, anointed with oil and frankincense. The priest then burns a memorial of the beaten corn and oil as an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville's inward reading, Leviticus 2:14-16 is a manual for the inner altar. The 'firstfruits' are the earliest movements of your state of consciousness—what you desire to be, not what you now see. The green ears beaten out of full ears, dried by the fire, symbolize the purification of your mental images by the heat of longing, the stripping away of doubt until only the essence remains. The oil laid upon it is the anointing of the mind—the quality you choose to feed your image with: calm trust, faith, and steadfast attention. The frankincense is gratitude rising as prayer—aroma to the I AM that you are. When the priest burns the memorial, it is the act of letting the created image be remembered and held within awareness until it becomes present reality. This is not a ritual to appease an external God, but a discipline by which your inner I AM metabolizes desire into being. The offering made by fire speaks of the willingness to burn away the old self to reveal the true state of consciousness that already exists in God and in you.

Practice This Now

Assume the state you desire already lives in you as your present reality. Close your eyes and picture firstfruits—green corn, dried by fire, with oil and frankincense—offered to the LORD within. Feel the I AM witness it as real and let that memory burn into your awareness.