Neville Goddard on Numbers 1:36-37 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Numbers 1 in context

Scripture Focus

36Of the children of Benjamin, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

37Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.

Numbers 1:36-37

Biblical Context

The tribe of Benjamin is counted: men twenty years old and upward who could go to war, totaling thirty-five thousand four hundred.

Neville's Inner Vision

Benjamin’s tribe within me stands for steadfast action under divine order. The census I read in numbers is not an external tally but an inner accounting of powers ready to move. When I notice the age of twenty and upward, I understand the mind has matured enough to answer any call from the inner plan. The thirty-five thousand four hundred that are counted becomes a multiplicity of ready faculties—courage, discipline, perception—waiting to be summoned into expression. Providence is the inner light that guides the I AM to marshal these faculties at need. The house of their fathers becomes my own lineage of remembered patterns, inherited by my awareness as I claim my vocation and my witness to life. By feeling this fact as already true, I revise doubt and assume I am the war-ready self now; I imagine the inner army stepping forth and my world responding in kind. In this way, numbers are not a past event but a present manual for action in harmony with God within.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume the inner census is complete: you are the war-ready self. Feel the thirty-five thousand four hundred inner powers gathered, and declare I am ready to act now.