Inner Purification Ceremony
Numbers 19:3 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Numbers 19 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The passage commands presenting a red heifer to the priest Eleazar to be slain outside the camp, a ritual performed for purification. It emphasizes obedience to the commandment and accountability to the divine law.
Neville's Inner Vision
When you read Numbers 19:3, see the red heifer not as a dated ritual but as a symbol of cleansing within your own mind. Eleazar represents the inner priest, the discerning awareness that stands before your thoughts and feelings. The act of bringing the heifer outside the camp and slaying it before his face is the moment you bring a stubborn belief into the open, away from the crowded ego where it has ruled you, and allow the light of awareness to dissolve it. This is not punishment but a radical act of obedience to the Law that governs your inner kingdom, the law of purification by releasing attachments that separate you from your I AM. When you imagine this rite, you are practicing the process by which consciousness casts out what is unclean, so that the whole camp of your mind can be purer and more alive to truth. The result is not external conformity but an inward residence in creative awareness.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: In a quiet moment, hand a stubborn belief to your inner Eleazar to be slain outside the camp, then feel the mind refreshed and rest in I AM.
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