Neville Goddard on Numbers 5:15 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Numbers 5 in context

Scripture Focus

15Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.

Numbers 5:15

Biblical Context

The man presents his wife with a bare barley offering to the priest, without oil or incense, as a memorial. It is to recall iniquity.

Neville's Inner Vision

To the Neville ear, Numbers 5:15 invites you to see jealousy as a state of consciousness, not a person. The husband brings the wife to the priest as a memorial of a remembered wrong, and the offering of barley—with no oil or incense—signifies a bare, unadorned thought-material presented to the altar of awareness. In your inner theatre, the 'priest' is the I AM within you, the fixed witness of all moving states. The act strips away aroma and emotion, leaving only the fact that you are aware of a conflict in memory. When you acknowledge this memory as only memory, you free the state from law's demand and invite a revision: you are not defined by the past action nor by the judgment of it. The jealousy offering becomes a discipline of consciousness: return to the present, insist on your unity with God, and allow the memory to be replaced by an awareness of your true nature as I AM. In this light, jealousy dissolves into quiet assurance that the eternal self is untouched by temporal appearances.