Neville Goddard on Numbers 16:3 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Numbers 16 in context

Scripture Focus

3And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?

Numbers 16:3

Biblical Context

In Numbers 16:3, a group confronts Moses and Aaron, arguing everyone is holy and God is among them. They challenge the leadership as an act of ego and separation.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your consciousness is a stage where different angles of yourself argue about who leads. The cry, 'everyone is holy and the LORD is among them' is not about others but about your own belief that some part of you is more worthy than another. The I AM in you recognizes the presence of God in all, yet the impulse to exalt 'you' above 'the rest' reveals a state of pride—an inner Moses and Aaron posing as authority while the rest deny that God is the same within them. To reinterpret, assume the feeling that you are not a separate ruler over others, but the living I AM that is present in them as well. When you revise the ego's claim to supremacy by dwelling in the truth 'I am one with the I AM in all I meet,' you dissolve separation. The harmony of the entire inner assembly becomes your mood; the 'lifting up' is a memory of a state that never truly exists in the I AM.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and recall a time you felt someone else was above you; silently affirm, I am the I AM within them and within me; I am not above, I am one. Do this for a minute, feeling the equal presence of God in all parts of your being.