Neville Goddard on Daniel 2:4-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Daniel 2 in context

Scripture Focus

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.

Daniel 2:4-6

Biblical Context

The king demands the dream and its interpretation; the wise men say the dream is forgotten, and the king threatens punishment or reward depending on who can reveal both.

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the king is your outer state, the ego that must prove its reality by outer signs. The Chaldeans are the reasoning faculties that demand a concrete dream and its meaning from without. When the king says the dream is forgotten, you are being shown that true understanding does not depend on memory of a tale, but on the inner realization that you are the source of both dream and interpretation. The 'threat' of cutting to pieces is your fear of losing identity when you cannot supply the answer from the old story; the vast reward is the honor of living from within. Daniel, the inner wisdom that answers when you ask, represents the moment you align with the I AM and allow the dream to rise from your own consciousness. The law is simple: imagination creates the conditions; assume the dream and its interpretation, feel them as real, and the external world will reflect that inner alignment. You are the dreamer and the interpreter, now.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Close your eyes, declare 'I now remember the inner dream and its meaning; I interpret it now from the I AM.' Then relax and feel the truth as present.