Neville Goddard on Numbers 10:5-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Numbers 10 in context

Scripture Focus

5When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward.

6When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.

Numbers 10:5-6

Biblical Context

Numbers 10:5-6 speaks of blowing alarms that move the camps east, then south; a disciplined, directional journey. In Neville's reading, these motions symbolize shifts in inner consciousness guided by the I AM.

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the alarm is not a trumpet blown in the desert but a decision of consciousness. When you blow the alarm and the east camps advance, you are declaring that a new center of awareness has awakened and is willing to lead your life. The second alarm, blown again, calls forth the southern camps—a deeper alignment, a second turning of your attention to the wish fulfilled. The camps are your faculties: will, imagination, feeling, and action; their forward march is the outward sign of an inner revision. The presence of God is not somewhere beyond, but the I AM in you—the steady witness who recognizes a desire and accepts it as already true. Your mission and your witness arise as you live in the assumption that the change is real here and now. The command to move is an invitation to align your inner state with the life you intend. That is the Neville-style reading: reality is the drama of your inner states becoming outward experience, and imagination is the instrument by which you sculpt this journey.

Practice This Now

Practice: sit quietly, choose a simple wish, and assume it as already real. Then 'blow' an inner alarm and feel your consciousness moving east, followed by a second, inner blow shifting you south, until you sense the wish marching outward as your life.