Brick Quotas and Inner Freedom
Exodus 5:8-9 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Exodus 5 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Pharaoh's taskmasters insist on the old brick quota, accusing the people of idleness as they cry out to their God. They then command even harder labor, telling the men to pay no heed to vain words.
Neville's Inner Vision
In the desert of your mind, the tale of bricks is a story you tell about your own states of consciousness. The quota represents a fixed belief about lack, about what you must produce to be worthy or accepted. The cry to go and sacrifice to your God is the moment you momentarily realize there is a larger I AM awareness within, a call to worship not of idle words but of reality faith. The decree 'let more work be laid upon the men' is the inner impulse to prove yourself through effort, to yield to external measures, to measure your value by the labor you perform. Yet the wording also carries a countercurrent: within you, God is the I AM, the consciousness that cannot be diminished. The instruction to ignore vain words invites you to revise the story with a present-tense assumption of freedom. When you accept that you are not defined by quotas but by the inner state from which you speak and act, the outer signs of bondage fade, and the dream of labor becomes a dream of realized potential.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes, and assume the state of freedom now; say, 'I AM free in this very moment,' and feel that assumption filling your body as a warm light. Then revise the script—see the quota dissolving into nourishment for your holy inner worship of the I AM.
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