Inner Sin Offering Practice

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the altar not as a temple stone but as the inner stage of your awareness, the I AM. The sin-offering is the old sense of guilt you no longer wish to inhabit; the wringing of the head is your decisive separation from that old self. The priest is your higher self—the I AM within—whose function is to place the energy of that old state upon the altar of consciousness. By sprinkling the blood on the altar and letting the rest drain away, you are learning to drain away the charge of guilt and release its hold on you. This is forgiveness and reconciliation in the language of your inner life: the fault is seen, acknowledged, yet its power over you is withdrawn. The blood does not ‘pay’ God; it marks a transformation in your state of consciousness, a shift from identification with error to alignment with your true nature. You are not being punished; you are being invited to saturate your attention with the I AM until the old scent of sin loses its hold.