Dreams, Pits, and Inner Revival

Genesis 37:18-22 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Genesis 37 in context

Scripture Focus

18And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.
19And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh.
20Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
21And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands; and said, Let us not kill him.
22And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again.
Genesis 37:18-22

Biblical Context

Joseph's brothers plot to kill him, throw him into a pit, and pretend a wild beast devoured him; Reuben intervenes to spare him, intending to return him to his father.

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the scene is not about a boy in a land but about your own state of consciousness. Joseph is the dreamer within you—the vision you hold of your future. The brothers' conspiracy is the fearful chorus that arises whenever a new possibility begins to take form in your mind. They say, 'Behold, this dreamer cometh' and propose to silence him by casting him into a pit—the pit being a pattern of lack, a neutral container where you bury a still-unmanifested event in the memory of fear. Reuben's intervention is the impulse of your wiser self, the I AM, who refuses bloodshed and insists on preserving the dream so it can be delivered back to the Father—the Source of your awareness. The line about what will become of his dreams is the test: will you let the fear kill the vision, or lift it up into the womb of inner purpose? The remedy is not external; it is a revision in consciousness: hold the dream intact, return it to God in you, and watch it manifest in the form that your current state can integrate.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit with the scene, assume the dream is already fulfilled, and feel Joseph safe with the Father within you; let that assurance settle in your awareness.

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