Neville Goddard on Numbers 22:5-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Numbers 22 in context

Scripture Focus

5He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me:

6Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.

Numbers 22:5-6

Biblical Context

Balak sends messengers to Balaam to curse Israel, hoping to overpower them because they are strong. The verse makes clear the motive: who Balaam blesses is blessed, and who he curses is cursed.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your Balak is the fear that arises when a new power within you is awakening. The request to curse is the ego asking for a guarantee that what you fear can be controlled by words. The people from Egypt are the liberated state of your consciousness, now confronted by the old mind’s anxiety about power and survival. Balaam, the speaker who can bless or curse, becomes not a person but a set of inner beliefs you consult before acting. The truth revealed by Neville: the one you bless is blessed because blessing is a state of awareness you sustain; the one you curse is cursed because fear fuels it. When you align with blessing—feeling the desired outcome as already real—the external world rearranges itself to match that assumption. The passage is teaching that external events mirror your inner posture; you are not at the mercy of others with words, but the I AM within you chooses what to declare as true. If you persist in blessing, your life shifts toward wholeness; if you cling to curses, you entangle yourself in limitation. Your power lies in the revision and the feeling of the wish fulfilled.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Close your eyes, declare I am blessed; my life unfolds from my conscious state, and feel that truth. Then rest in that feeling and observe your day aligning with the blessing.