Inner Offering Proportions

Neville's Inner Vision

See the ritual as a map of your inner life. The LORD is the I AM within you, the steady awareness that receives every impression. The meat offering—one-tenth of a deal of flour mingled with a fourth of an hin of oil—symbolizes sustained thought disciplined into form, the oil signifying vitality and refinement poured into your attention. The drink offering—a fourth of an hin of wine—stands for the joyous feeling you accompany that thought with, a grateful emotion that seals the intention. The burnt offering and the lamb remind you that you are the single self surrendered to divine law; when you align your attention and your feeling with the truth that you are already that awareness, the outer “sacrifice” becomes simply the natural expression of your inner state. Thus true worship is not compliance with outward ritual, but the interior act of imagining and feeling as though you are the fulfilled I AM. As you practice, you discover that what you perceive in the world is the outward display of your inner consecration.