Neville Goddard on Numbers 1:1 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Numbers 1 in context

Scripture Focus

1And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

Numbers 1:1

Biblical Context

God speaks to Moses in the wilderness, within the tabernacle, announcing a census on a precise timetable as the people journey from Egypt.

Neville's Inner Vision

Count not the outward numbers but the movements of consciousness. In Numbers 1:1 the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness, not as a distant census taker, but as the I AM within awakening to its own address. The wilderness is the restless mind; the tabernacle, the living sanctuary of awareness you enter by attention; the first day of the second month marks a new cycle, a fresh attention to what you hold as true. When you listen for that voice, you hear your own conviction rise: you are spoken to not from without but from within, by the always-present I AM. The census is not a ledger of people but a tally of your states—fear, faith, hope, certainty. By assuming you are already the state spoken to, you align your inner atmosphere with divine directive. As you revise and feel it real, you permit the next moment to be under a higher order, and the inner words become your outer form.