Neville Goddard on Exodus 5:14 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Exodus 5 in context

Scripture Focus

14And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?

Exodus 5:14

Biblical Context

Pharaoh's officers over the Israelites are beaten and pressed to meet the brick quota. The scene is a metaphor for how pressure externalizes as inner coercion.

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the beating and the relentless demand are not cruelty suffered by an outward class of men, but the pressure of a certain consciousness you carry. The officers symbolize your inner authorities—the part of you that dictates what you must produce and by when. Pharaoh’s taskmasters are the external conditions and memories that police your sense of lack, pushing you to prove yourself by brick after brick. When they cry, 'Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task?' they are the insistence of the old self, insisting on yesterday's success as if you can reproduce life on its own terms. But in Neville's sense, the truly real world is your state of consciousness; events are inner movements. The Israelites rise or fall according to your present assumption. The solution is to revise the scene in imagination: assume you have already completed the task; feel the gratitude and the satisfaction of fulfilled labor; dwell in the I AM that witnesses this inner completion. Do not resist the impulse to see yourself as the builder of your new brick, fashioned by your awareness, not by fear.