Inner Mercy at Joseph's Door

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine you and your inner self arriving at the door of Joseph—the I AM within—where the past actions of your life stand confessed on the floor. The brothers fall, not to a man of flesh, but to your own awareness that knows and can divine the truth of every deed. In this scene, 'God' is not a judge outside you but the consciousness that now says to you, 'What deed is this that ye have done?' The cup appears as a symbol of the hidden motive you refused to face; yet the moment of confession—'God hath found out the iniquity'—is your own inner realization that the law of cause and effect is acting within you, not to punish but to awaken. Joseph's reply, 'The man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant,'—becomes a figure for the part of you that must serve the new understanding you are choosing to inhabit. And 'go you up in peace unto your father' is the experience of inner reconciliation returning to your character, to the Father within. Trust that the end of the scene is the result of an inner assumption already fulfilled.