Ashes to Inner Purity

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this measure of ritual, the inner law is plain: your consciousness must be prepared to bear light without contamination. The ashes are not waste but memories of a former imagining that burned away the old state. When the priest clothes himself in linen, he embodies a clear, transparent I AM presence—awareness that can witness without fear or attachment. Placing the ashes beside the altar signifies that the former thought-form has been acknowledged, yet left to its own place, not clogging the altar of awareness. Carrying the ashes outside the camp is the decisive movement: you remove the remnants from the center of your life so they no longer color your perception or the way you imagine yourself. In this sense holiness is not a place, but a state of mind refined by repetition of choice; purification comes as you revise what you accept as true and hold a new image in place. You can practice this now by assuming you are already purified, feeling the newly woven self in your chest, and letting old memories drift off as ashes carried away.