Inner Cleansing: The Third Day

Numbers 19:12 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Numbers 19 in context

Scripture Focus

12He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
Numbers 19:12

Biblical Context

Numbers 19:12 speaks of purification on the third day and completeness on the seventh. Neglecting the third day's purification leaves one unclean on the seventh.

Neville's Inner Vision

Numbers 19:12 becomes a map of inner discipline. Purification is not an external ritual but a turning of the inner self toward the I AM and the feelings that accompany it. The 'it' you purify with is your imaginative life—your belief revised by a steady, inner conviction. The third-day purification is a decisive shift: you assume the state of cleanliness, you revise what you accept about yourself, and you feel it as real. If you omit the third-day act, the seventh-day outcome cannot fully appear, for the inner door remains ajar. The seventh day is the culmination where the newly revised self is experienced as your ongoing condition. Thus, the law speaks not of numbers and times, but of states of consciousness: when you persist in the feeling of being clean, you embody purity and the Presence of God in you becomes tangible. You are the one who chooses the state and the one who lives into it by sustained imaginative faith.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: On the third day, close your eyes and declare I am clean now, and feel the inner wash of light and wholeness. Then keep that feeling through the seventh day until it becomes your lived reality.

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