Inner Home Return: Genesis 30:25-26

Neville's Inner Vision

Recall that this scene is a state of consciousness, not a travel itinerary. The birth of Joseph marks the inner birth of a man who is ready to claim his own land—the I AM within—where his wives, his children, and his labor have led him to the realization that he already possesses his true country. Laban's wages and the long service symbolize the mind's illusions of lack; Jacob's demand to depart is the mind saying, 'I am finished with dependency and ready to inhabit my own kingdom.' The real covenant loyalty is to the I AM, to the state that makes him free, fruitful, and faithful. When you inhabit that state, events align as if you were already there, because you have imagined and felt the fulfilled wish. The outer journey becomes the echo of an inner, settled conviction: you have returned to your own place, and your family follows the increase of consciousness, not the other way around.