Neville Goddard on Genesis 37:15-17 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Genesis 37 in context

Scripture Focus

15And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?

16And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed their flocks.

17And the man said, They are departed hence; for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan.

Genesis 37:15-17

Biblical Context

Joseph wanders in the field and asks where his brothers feed. He learns they’ve gone to Dothan and goes there to find them.

Neville's Inner Vision

Joseph's wandering in the field is the mind's restless search inside the field of awareness. The man who asks, What seekest thou? is the inner guide, the I AM that questions motive and invites a decision. When Joseph answers, I seek my brethren, he names a state of harmony—the unity of scattered aspects of self. The departure to Dothan is the inner direction your imagination assigns to bring the separated powers into one vision. Joseph's act of going after them represents turning attention toward the assumption that this unity already exists in you. When at last he finds them in Dothan, you are shown that the apparent separations are only states of consciousness that can be gathered by a steadfast, felt-sense commitment to the end. Thus the law remains: reality is the state you inhabit in imagination. If you persist in dwelling in that one, unified state, your outer world rearranges to reflect the inner gathering.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, enter the field of your awareness, and declare, I am whole and all my parts are gathered. Sit with the feeling of reunion until it becomes your immediate sense of reality.