Inner Purification in Numbers 19:7-8
Numbers 19:7-8 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Numbers 19 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verse describes both the priest and the burner washing and bathing before re-entering the camp, remaining ceremonially unclean until evening. In plain sense, impurity is temporary and tied to ritual boundaries.
Neville's Inner Vision
Within you, the rite is a symbol of your inner method for renewal. The priest is the I AM—the quiet, observing self—who must wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water: this is a metaphor for renewing outer habits and inner feelings by the current of awareness that flows through you. To re-enter the camp means returning to your everyday consciousness, but now unclean only until the evening—the moment your awareness closes the old day and births a new one. The burner's action points to the fiery force by which old affinities are burned away; yet even he must wash, indicating that cleansing is not achieved by heat alone but by a renewal in thought and emotion. The law instructs you that impurity is not a fixed essence but a temporary condition produced by identification with an old state. By assuming a new state—feeling and imagining that you are clean, true, and intact—you align your inner movements with the desired outcome. When you dwell in the I AM as your unchanging presence, the imagined act of purification becomes your lived experience, and the evening arrives with the old impurity dissolved in the light of awareness.
Practice This Now
Assume you are already purified. Picture the stream of awareness washing away the old self as you stand in the renewed presence of I AM.
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