Ignorance as Atonement Gate

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville’s voice: Ignorance in this passage is not a fault lodged outside you; it is a state of consciousness not yet aligned with the I AM. The burnt offering and sin offering symbolize your willingness to release a former self-image and to adopt a higher pattern of awareness. The priest stands for your inner lawgiver—the part of you that can decree a new state of being. When you acknowledge the I AM as your sole reality, forgiveness is not something earned from without but realized within, as the mind revises itself. The verse’s phrase that forgiveness comes because of ignorance points to the inner shift that occurs when you choose to live from a renewed memory of yourself. All, even the stranger within, are included in this forgiveness because they are arising from the same consciousness you attend to. Thus, ignorance becomes the doorway to mercy: your next prayer is your next assumption—already, you are free, already forgiven, in the light of your true self. Remember: your state of consciousness is the sole soil in which reality germinates.