Neville Goddard on Daniel 2:2-11 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Daniel 2 in context

Scripture Focus

2Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.

3And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.

4Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation.

5The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.

6But if ye shew the dream, and the interpretation thereof, ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honour: therefore shew me the dream, and the interpretation thereof.

7They answered again and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation of it.

8The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.

9But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof.

10The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king's matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.

11And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.

Daniel 2:2-11

Biblical Context

King Nebuchadnezzar commands the wise men to reveal his dream and its interpretation and threatens punishment if they fail. The passage shows that outer wisdom cannot access the inner meaning of our experiences.

Neville's Inner Vision

The king is not a distant monarch but your own consciousness, troubled by a dream you cannot trust to memory or intellect alone. The magicians and their cohort are the faculties trying to conjure meaning from without; the gods symbolize your I AM, the inner presence that alone can restore wholeness. In Neville's psychology, crises like this mark the moment when 'what is' is inseparable from 'what you imagine is real.' The dream's demand to 'tell me the dream and the interpretation' becomes a call to assume you know it already and to claim the interpretation by inner decree. When you stop seeking outside counsel and turn to your own I AM, you will find that the answer arises as a state of consciousness that you can inhabit now. Your imagination can reconstruct the dream in alignment with your desires, and the apparent uncertainty dissolves as you dwell in the feeling of the wish fulfilled.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, declare 'I am the dreamer; I already know the dream and its interpretation,' and feel that knowledge as present within me. Hold that feeling until it becomes present-tense reality.