Neville Goddard on Leviticus 8:14-17 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Leviticus 8 in context

Scripture Focus

14And he brought the bullock for the sin offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock for the sin offering.

15And he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it.

16And he took all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and Moses burned it upon the altar.

17But the bullock, and his hide, his flesh, and his dung, he burnt with fire without the camp; as the LORD commanded Moses.

Leviticus 8:14-17

Biblical Context

Leviticus 8:14-17 describes Aaron and his sons performing the sin offering: laying hands on the animal, blood cleanses the altar, and the ritual ends with burning the fats, with the bullock’s remains burned outside the camp.

Neville's Inner Vision

In a Neville Goddard frame, the bullock is a symbol of a mistaken state of consciousness you would dispose of. Placing hands on its head is an act of identification—acknowledging the old belief as it appears in you, not separate from your I AM. The blood upon the horns of the altar represents directing awareness to the edge of your mind, cleansing your inner space and sanctifying it for a new operation of consciousness. The purification is not about appeasing external gods but about aligning your inner rhetoric with reality through conscious choice. The portion burned on the altar symbolizes releasing the attachments of sense knowledge—the fats and inwards—so that desire no longer governs the self. Burning the bullock outside the camp shows that the old self is removed from your inner domain and not allowed to linger in your vision. When you practice this as law in your life, you follow the divinely ordered move within you: shift attention, acknowledge your I AM, and reconcile the inner kingdom to radiate a coherent reality.

Practice This Now

Imaginative practice: choose a limiting belief and pretend you lay hands on it as the sin-offering; in imagination, pour the 'blood' of awareness on the horns of your inner altar to cleanse it, and picture the fats burning away on the altar. Then rest in the felt sense of reconciliation as your I AM.