Inner Healing Serpent Vision

Numbers 21:4-9 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Numbers 21 in context

Scripture Focus

4And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
5And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.
6And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
7Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
8And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
9And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
Numbers 21:4-9

Biblical Context

The people grow discouraged, complain against God and Moses, and are bitten by serpents; after they repent, God provides a symbolic healing by instructing them to look at the brass serpent on a pole, which enables recovery for those who look.

Neville's Inner Vision

This passage is a map of consciousness. The discouragement and complaint of the soul reflect inner resistances to the I AM awareness. The fiery serpents symbolize fears and limiting beliefs that sting the self when it forgets its true nature. The people’s admission of sin signals a turning of attention, and Moses’ prayer represents an inner alignment with a higher idea. The command to lift a brass serpent on a pole is not an external remedy but a powerful inner symbol: to look upon it is to fix the mind on a defined, healing reality—health, vitality, and life blooming within. Whoever beholds this image with the inner eye lives, because life is not found in the problem but in the principle of vitality that you, as consciousness, already are. Thus the act of beholding re-identifies you with the I AM and restores the inner relationship to the source.

Practice This Now

In moments of discouragement, close your eyes, envision a brass serpent on a pole shining within you, and fix your attention on it while affirming, 'I look upon the healing image of my I AM, and I live now.'

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