The Inner Meat Offering

Neville's Inner Vision

Your inner life is the altar. The meat offering, its flour, oil, and frankincense, is not a ritual outward but an image birthed in awareness. When you imagine presenting it before the LORD, you are standing in the I AM at the center of you. The handful you offer represents the exact focus of your attention—the line you draw between present habit and the state you desire. When that offering is burned as a sweet savour, you declare the reality of that state in your consciousness; it becomes a memorial that endures because you have given it life by belief. The portion that remains to be eaten in the holy place stands for the nourishment you supply to your inner self through consistent repetition of that state. Leaven is excluded to remind you that your shifting of consciousness must be free from old, fermenting patterns. All who touch this holy thing are made holy by contact with your renewed state. Thus the law invites you to live from the remembered sensation of your divinity, a perpetual worship in mind and action.