Ashes of Purification Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the inner theatre, Numbers 19:9 invites us to observe the movement of purification as a shift in consciousness, not a matter of ritual alone. The “clean” one is the awakened state of awareness that gathers the ashes—the impressions left by old beliefs—outside the camp of the familiar self and places them into a clean field of imagination. There, these ashes are kept for a water of separation, a living stream in your mind that separates you from guilt and error rather than from life itself. The ashes symbolize discarded thoughts; the act of laying them away outside the camp is the discipline of not feeding them with attention. By imagining a separate place, you create a boundary where the old sin-picture loses its grip, and your present I AM flows as the source of purity. The water poured over these ashes is the feeling of conversion—the conviction that you are already clean, that sin is memory, not reality. Thus, purification is an ongoing inner operation, performed not by ritual alone but by your consistent attention to the state you choose to inhabit.