Neville Goddard on Genesis 37:5-11 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Genesis 37 in context

Scripture Focus

5And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.

6And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:

7For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.

8And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.

9And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.

10And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?

11And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.

Genesis 37:5-11

Biblical Context

Joseph dreams of ruling over his brothers and family, provoking envy and questions about his place in the lineage.

Neville's Inner Vision

In the tale, the dream is not prophecies crossing time but an inner assertion of self. The I AM within Joseph is the awareness that rises and makes its image to bow the other images, the sheaf and others, into alignment with the one idea: I am king in my inner realm. The brothers' resistance and the father's rebuke are signals of the mind testing a new image against old identifications. Envy and rebuke indicate where belief still trembles before the dream. The key is not to prove the world wrong but to persist in the imagined fact of the end desired: I am crowned in my inner kingdom, and the outer world must eventually align. This is how kingdom comes, not by coercion but by the inward feeling of the end already achieved. Hold this vision in present tense until it becomes your lived atmosphere.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, repeat 'I am the ruler of my inner kingdom' in the present tense, and feel that reality settle into your bones. If counter-images arise, revise them with the same phrase until they bow to your reign.