Inner Offerings of Numbers

Neville's Inner Vision

Do you see that the numbers speak not of carts and altars, but of your own inner worship? The bullock, the ram, and the lamb are not animals before God, but facets of your consciousness: the Bullock stands for steadfast strength and stubborn energy, the Ram for governing mind and authoritative imagination, the Lamb for gentle obedience and pure love. The wine poured into each is the energy you consecrate to these states—half a hin to the strong; a third to leadership; a fourth to tenderness. This is a monthly ritual, a reminder that every cycle returns you to the altar of I AM—the ever-present awareness by which you are. When you assume the feeling of the fulfilled state as if it already were, you are not performing rites; you are shifting consciousness. The burnt offering is not a demand for suffering, but a constant return of your attention to the truth that you are whole, attracted to harmony by inner law. In such imagination, you release the past and inaugurate a future through present feeling.