Inner Plague of Influence

Neville's Inner Vision

Numbers 31:16 speaks not of foreign women, but of the inner lure that would draw Israel away from the Lord within. Balaam's 'counsel' is the whispering counsel of the ego—justifying fear as fate, appeal to appetite as destiny. The 'Peor' incident is the symbol of spiritual misalignment: when the mind forgets its oneness and looks for power outside itself, a plague—doubt, guilt, division—breaks out in the collective self. In Neville's terms, the people are states of consciousness; the Midianite women are attractions of the senses; the plague is the result of a mind dwelt on separation. But you are the I AM, the ever-present awareness. The remedy is revision: acknowledge that the power to shape events rests in your inner state, not in external counselors. See that you have not been compelled, you have believed you have been compelled. By insisting on your own divine arrangement, by 'feeling it real' that you are the I AM in command, you dissolve the imagined plague and restore unity with the Lord.