The Inner Sacrifice of Righteousness

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice how the verse speaks not of conditions outside you, but of the state you are willing to entertain. In the I AM you are God; the altar is your imagination, the bullocks your fixed thoughts and fears. When you offer the sacrifices of righteousness—consistency, integrity, love, and obedience to your true nature—God is pleased in you. The burnt offering and whole burnt offering point to surrender: you burn up the ego's whims on the altar of awareness, not to appease a distant deity but to align your inner being with its own law. Then you proceed to offer; the outer world will present itself in harmony as the effect of your inner order. This is not ritual for ritual's sake but a practical transformation: you choose a state, dwell in it, and let the imagination do the work. The "altar" is the stillness where you witness your own I AM; repeat: 'I am the righteousness of God in action.'