Neville Goddard on Numbers 1:36-43 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

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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.

38Of the children of Dan, 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;

39Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Dan, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.

40Of the children of Asher, 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;

41Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.

42Of the children of Naphtali, throughout 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;

43Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.

Numbers 1:36-43

Biblical Context

Numbers 1:36-43 records a census of several tribes, listing how many were able to go to war. It is a count of inner readiness, not merely a material tally.

Neville's Inner Vision

What you are reading is not a historical roll call but an invitation to awaken states of consciousness. The tribes Benjamin, Dan, Asher, Naphtali stand as inner dispositions, and the numbers are the degrees to which those dispositions are alive in you. The phrase 'from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war' marks a maturity of awareness—the age when imagination may be pressed into service for creation. The census, then, is your inner accounting: you count what you accept as real in your mind and you determine which thoughts you will allow to march in formation toward your end. When you dwell in the I AM—the one awareness that underlies all experience—you begin to harmonize these tribes into a single army under your command. The "war" is not conflict with others but the inner discipline of faithfulness to your chosen state. Covenant loyalty is your commitment to persist in the image, to obey the inner laws you have authorized through imagination. The numbers you honor reflect the degree to which your inner life is organized and ready to act as if your desire already is.

Practice This Now

Choose a specific outcome you wish to manifest. Close your eyes, assume you already possess it, and imagine yourself among the tribes, feeling confident, united, and ready to move toward your goal as if it is your present reality.