Neville Goddard on Numbers 15:14-16 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Numbers 15 in context

Scripture Focus

14And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever be among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; as ye do, so he shall do.

15One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD.

16One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.

Numbers 15:14-16

Biblical Context

The passage declares that a stranger living with you, who offers an offering, may do as you do; there is one ordinance and one law for you and for the stranger, in all generations.

Neville's Inner Vision

Numbers 15:14-16 invites you to see the stranger not as an outsider to punish or exclude, but as a state of consciousness that has come to dwell within your awareness. The stranger and the congregation stand before the LORD together, which in Neville's phrasing means there is one I AM presiding over all inner movements. The 'one ordinance' and 'one law' point to a single governing assumption: in you, all voices and habits are welcome under the same act of awareness. When you accept that the stranger is simply another part of your own consciousness, you awaken to the truth that you are the creator of appearances, and you may revise what you now see by assuming unity. The fire of a sweet savour then becomes the imagined quality you cultivate in yourself, a harmonized state that makes all states of being feel at home within you.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Assume you are already the one governing presence. When a new state or stranger arises, imagine offering it the same law and sweetness you give your own best self, and feel the unity as real.