Inner Peace Offering Insight

Neville's Inner Vision

From the Neville Goddard vantage, the goat is not animal, but a symbol of a thought or habit you would surrender to the divine fire of consciousness. When you lay your hand on the head, you are identifying with the old self—your fear, your lack, your boundary-bound story—and in that moment you say to your I AM, 'I release you to the altar of awareness.' The slaughter before the tabernacle is the moment you cut loose the power of that thought, allowing blood to represent the life-energy of your attention poured into the altar of God within. The priests sprinkling the blood and burning the fats speak of transforming your former fuel—your ego's assumptions—into the sweet savour of harmony and presence. All the fat, the literal material excess, belongs to the LORD; so too your attachments and identifications belong to pure awareness. The result is not external ritual but internal alignment: your consciousness arriving at peace, the presence of God becoming your normal state.