Inner Purification, Holy Feast

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider that the 'uncleanness' is not a grime of flesh but a state of awareness—thoughts or feelings that deny your true I AM. When you touch such a thought, you momentarily believe you are separate from the holy food of God, the life that nourishes your true self. The rule 'until evening' invites you to let the old state pass by surrendering it to the sunset of consciousness; the wash with water is your deliberate mental act of washing away the old identification by an inner distinctness: I AM the awareness that witnesses this moment, and I choose to suspend belief in that which contaminates. When the sun goes down, you are 'clean' because you no longer identify with the old thought; you awaken to the reality that you are the God-annointed I AM, always nourished by the holy things. The rite is internal: you revise in imagination, affirm the state you desire, and feel it as real now. In this way, the 'holy things' are your daily nourishment—the expression of your true nature—made accessible by your conscious willingness to be fully awake.