Altars of Inner Worship
Numbers 23:1-2 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Numbers 23 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Balak and Balaam build seven altars and offer on each one a bull and a ram. The passage presents an external ritual of sacrifice carried out at every altar.
Neville's Inner Vision
From the Neville perspective, the page speaks of inner architecture, not geography. The seven altars are seven fixed states of consciousness you awaken in the mind; the offerings are the old self, attachments, and limited beliefs you willingly surrender to the I AM. When Balak and Balaam perform the ritual, this mirrors your inner agreement to the higher claim of your awakened awareness. Obedience here is internal obedience: you align your inner dialogue with the truth of I AM, and your outer circumstances gradually reflect that alignment. If you cling to the symbols (altars, bulls, rams) you project separation; when you recognize the altar as a symbol of inner choice, you discharge fear and invite harmony. True worship is not the act but the inner alignment that makes the event in your world inevitable. Thus the scene invites you to revise the sense of self from a fragmented identity to the sovereign I AM that stands behind every event. You are not petitioning a god outside; you are awakening to the realization that your inner state is the cause and purpose of all seen and unseen acts.
Practice This Now
Create seven inner altars in your imagination, assign each altar a quality you desire (clarity, faith, patience, joy, integrity, mercy, power), and offer the old self to the I AM, affirming I AM as the presence that makes it so.
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