Inner Offerings of Worship

Neville's Inner Vision

On the fourth day the list of offerings is not a ledger of outside ritual but a map of the soul’s inner economy. Each creature becomes a symbol of a state of consciousness: the bullock for steadfast, disciplined will; the ram for cutting insight; the lambs for innocent faith; the goat sin offering for the release of error beliefs that dim the light. When it says the meat and drink offerings are “according to their number, after the manner,” it invites you to measure your inner investments—how much attention and feeling you devote to each faculty—and to revise until the inner sum confirms your desired alignment. The continual burnt offering represents the constant willingness to dwell in the I AM, the acknowledge that you are, now, the temple in which God resides. The offerings are not external obligations but images of your inner practice: you imagine presenting these offerings to your higher self, and you awaken to the reality you have already imagined. By honoring this inner law, you awaken a life that feels inevitable and vividly present the moment you assume the state.