Inner Atonement For Ignorance

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this passage, the 'congregation' is your entire field of awareness, and the 'ignorance' is when you forget your true I AM. You act as if you are separate from the divine presence, and so a kind of inner disharmony emerges. The offerings—burnt offerings, meat, and sin offerings—are symbolic mental acts you perform to realign your state of mind. The priest who makes atonement represents the correcting function of attention, the willingness to revise your assumption until harmony is restored. When the scripture says it shall be forgiven, understand that forgiveness is not an external verdict but your own capacity to shift from a lack of awareness to an awareness of wholeness. As you hold the new state—imagination chosen as fact, the feeling of being clean, accepted, and in right relation—you release the belief that ignorance governs you. Even the stranger within your mind benefits from this renewal, for all within your consciousness share in your new inner atmosphere. In this light, mercy becomes the natural law of your I AM, and true worship is the steady practice of imagining your oneness.